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People with learning difficulties whose independently run resource centre closed last week will still be able to access services after Inverclyde Council intervened.

Advocacy workers and staff feared the 10 clients of the Impact Project would be left without supervised day care services after a final effort to prevent the centre's closure failed.

During the past 15 years the project has helped people with learning difficulties to develop employment skills. Throughout that time it was managed by the Inverclyde Community Development Trust.


It said it had been forced to axe the project because council grants were insufficient to provide a quality service. But the council, which covers the Greenock area west of Glasgow, has now agreed to offer the same services from the nearby Acorn Outreach project until it has profiled individual clients' needs and found them longer term placements.