Around 500 others who use the transport each week are also currently being assessed for eligibility

Feb 2 2012 by Francesca Elliott, Flintshire Chronicle

A WOMAN who cares for her disabled sister has blasted council bosses for a £400,000 transport service cut which could impact hundreds and force her to quit her job.

Julie Forster, of Mynydd Isa, is carer to her vulnerable 51-year-old sister Jackie, who has learning disabilities and often needs a wheelchair.

Jackie, like about 500 others in Flintshire, relies on council-funded transport, which uses private contractors to drive people with learning disabilities to day care centres or work opportunities.

She uses it five days a week, leaving the house at 8.20am and returning at 4.15pm.

But the introduction of a transport policy for adults means she is no longer eligible for funding as she has a Motability-funded car.

Around 500 others who use the transport each week are also currently being assessed for eligibility.

Julie works full-time at a day centre for elderly people in Buckley and would be not able to drive Jackie herself and get to work on time.

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