Parents are struggling to get state support for their disabled children amid fears about the impact of council cuts.
The prime minister tried to contain growing anger over state care for disabled children, insisting that there was no connection between government cuts to local authority budgets and the decision of a mother of a severely disabled child to put her daughter into residential care.
But dozens of parents of disabled children posted online messages detailing similar difficulties in trying to get social services support, while charities stressed that Riven Vincent's case was not unique and warned that the problems facing families would get worse as local authority budget cuts begin to bite.
Vincent cares full-time for her six-year-old daughter Celyn, who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and epilepsy. When she learned on Tuesday that social services was unable to increase the number of hours of professional care she receives she told her social workers she could no longer cope and asked them to help her find a residential home for her child.
