Beaumont Healthcare provides care for more than 150 people in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.
Carers had helped her family go from "existing to living a little", said Tamsin Olney, mother of Oscar, 19Beaumont Healthcare will be the fifth care provider to hand back contracts to Cambridgeshire County Council this year. It has left clients and staff facing looming uncertainty.
Ms Olney, 46, said it could take up to six months for carers to get to know Oscar's body language and vocalisations. "Looking after Oscar is really demanding; it's a non-stop job. When carers are not here, there's no let-up." "It was very shocking. I received a phone call from the office and told we had 28 days and the company is closing. So at first it doesn't sink in yet, 'Is this really real?'"
"I'm worried about him because it's not easy to train new people and people might think that he's OK but maybe he's not and training new people will be a big adjustment for my client."Robert Turner, of Unison, said 100 staff would need to look for new jobs "That would be awful for the workers and their families as well as dire for a social care sector already struggling with a chronic workforce shortage.
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