Budget cuts for vulnerable people in North Somerset are to be the second highest in the South West, according to a housing group representing twelve-hundred not-for-profit organisations.

The National Housing Federation claims the council is slashing twenty-two percent from the fund used to provide help for the homeless and victims of domestric violence among others.

Equivalent cuts across the region range from forty percent to none at all, while the NHF say they accept local authorities are 'under huge pressure'.