West Lothian’s crisis in care funding has reached the point where the last of its cash reserves will run out this year, officials have warned.

The Integration Joint Board, which oversees social care services, faces making more cuts or capping services to the most vulnerable in the community.

The Board has had to rely on using its reserve funds to break even as health care budgets have soared in the last few years.

Both the NHS and West Lothian council have also had to pump extra funds into the Board’s ever-dwindling coffers.

It has already cut spending on auxilliary staffing and funding in care homes, care at home packages for the elderly and in adult social care and transport. These services face further cutbacks incoming years board members, including councillors, heard.

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