A disability charity study has placed North Somerset Council in the bottom ten for making cuts to frontline services.

A survey published by think-tank Demos, which is funded by Scope, has ranked the authority at number 145 out of 152 councils. 

The research says North Somerset has increased the cost of respite care for working-age disabled people by 14 per cent but deducted 20 per cent of the amount of money given to disabled people as a personal budget.