Every Saturday, young people get to have their say in the Dorset Echo's Voices page.

By Jack Welch

If a bill was to arrive through our front doors requiring us to pay £400 million, it would provoke a feeling of horror and worry.

For organisations within the care sector this is a reality and, because of the amount they must pay out, I believe there will be very visible consequence as people with learning disabilities could lose the essential care that keeps them in their homes.

Following a series of tribunals, carried out to investigate how much carers were earning when staying overnight to care for service users, the tax administrator HMRC is forcing providers to make a back payment for the past six years.

For charities like Mencap and others, this is a bill that just cannot be met without, what I believe, will be an almost collapse of support for the 178,000 people with learning disabilities nationwide.

For most of us who watch regular news coverage about the social care crisis, this would be a further disaster on top of what there is now.

It is estimated that in Dorset alone, 3,300 people have a known learning disability.

While it might not seem like a huge number, the most socially and economically disadvantaged will ultimately feel the impact of this bill.

There is also a wider moral argument to be made as to how carers are paid for their work, but that is a matter for the Government.

It is up to it to fix this.

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