THE more details are revealed about the public sector cuts the more obvious it becomes that the most vulnerable in society will be hit the hardest.

More than 1,000 people across Worcestershire who need services such as home help, visits to day centres or meals on wheels will face massive increases in the amount of money they have to pay for them if county council proposals get the go-ahead.

Council chiefs say they can save £2.5 million a year by ending their subsidised support for such services.

But it will mean some vulnerable adults having to find up to £100 extra every week to keep the services they use currently.

That is a huge additional cash burden for people who, in most cases, have paid taxes all their working lives.

And it puts into sharp focus just what the public sector cuts really mean.

These cuts are so deep they cannot be achieved just by cutting waste or reducing fat cat salaries at the very top level of our public services.

They will deny some of the people most in need of help to which they should be entitled.

The county council is correct when it says the majority of people using these services – most of whom are elderly and infirm – will be unaffected by the cuts.

But some will and in our view one person having to find this extra money is one too many.