DOZENS of disabled adults will lose their day care centres.
Councillors last night voted to close the services at Paddock Village Hall and Red Laithes Court in Ravensthorpe.
Some 41 disabled people use the two sites – down from 80 three years ago. The centres cost £368,000 a year to run.
Mirfield man Bruce Illingworth, whose wife Christine has multiple sclerosis, made a last-ditch bid to save the centres yesterday.
Speaking at the weekly meeting of the council’s Labour Cabinet, he said: “My wife is devastated by the proposal to close the centre and lose contact with the friends she has made over the years.”
But Cabinet member for health Clr Molly Walton said: “For some time now people have been voting with their feet. Younger people do not want to have the sort of day care which is provided within these buildings.”
The Cabinet voted unanimously to axe the centres.
