The stark financial decisions facing Glasgow’s health and social care partnership have been laid bare in leaked documents, as it grapples with a huge budget gap.

Options for savings worth £22m have been set out by officials, including slashing £3.5m from a budget for buying care home beds for older people, closing Hamilton Park Avenue children’s residential home and shutting Carlton Day Centre for people with learning disabilities.

A support service for children “living with a parent with alcohol and drug problems” could be decommissioned to save £600,000 and £2m cut from the Glasgow Alliance to End Homelessness, which has a “critical role” in providing emergency accommodation to homeless people.

The leaked documents state £8.3m of the £22m savings identified are “deliverable” while £13.7m “would not be supported by the chief social work officer because of the significant risk to the council of being able to fulfil its statutory duties”.

It reveals options have been identified if the council “chooses to cut services by a further £26.8m” to get to a target of £48.8m — but these would be “catastrophic” and would impact Glasgow City and residents in “a way which they could never recover from”.

The £22m of savings also include a £50,000 cut to addiction recovery services, which, the document states, would mean “vulnerable” people moving back “to the community from residential rehabilitation services will not get the required level of support”.

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