A DISABLED teenager was left without vital support after carers failed to turn up to his home.

This comes amid a dispute with staff at Cordia over changes to shift patterns, as reported in the Evening Times on Monday.

Union bosses have warned the “obscene” changes will have a detrimental impact on more clients. .

Jack McLeod, an 18-year-old with cerebral palsy is due to receive a visit from Cordia staff around 8pm every night to put him to bed, but on Monday night nobody appeared at his Drumchapel home.

After an hour his parents, who are both 58, had to put him to bed themselves as he needs to sleep with the help of a ventilator in case he stops breathing overnight.

Dad James said: “It’s absolutely disgusting, a shambles.

"Somebody is going to be really ill through this, and I hope nobody dies to be honest.

“My wife has now done her back in from lifting Jack...We usually leave it to the experts.

“We had to put him to his bed at 9pm, he was falling asleep in his chair and he needs the ventilator.”

Two home carers finally arrived at 9.50pm, but by that time Jack was sound asleep in bed.

“There was confusion everywhere.” said James.

“My boy had been omitted from any of their sheets.

“If we hadn’t put [the ventilator] on, he could have been very ill.

“We fought for months to get funding to pay Cordia, it’s not cheap, and they don’t even provide the service.

“If I could get another company to look after my son I would sleep better at night.”

Another service user, 62-year-old Pamela Hewison, relies on three visits a day from Cordia staff after suffering two heart attacks earlier this year.

The Maryhill woman is diabetic, wheelchair-bound and unable to carry out basic tasks such as wash or get dressed and she needs carers’ help to take her insulin and make her meals.

She says her former carer, who worked with her for six years, knew her very well and knew exactly how to look after her.

The carer has now had to move to another part of Glasgow following the changes.

Pamela said: “I’m in a wheelchair and I need a lot of help for basic care.

“I’m worried that if people are late or don’t turn up I won’t get my insulin on time and I could fall into a coma.

“ I need to eat at the same times each day, and I need my insulin at the same time too. My old carer knew all of that. She saved my life once because I had fallen into a coma and she phoned me an ambulance. “

Sam Macartney from Unison's Glasgow City branch said some staff had to be sent home on Monday as they were not told where they were going.

He said others were left “itears because they had no childcare arrangement and were on told on Friday they were getting moved, and they were told if they weren't in on time they would dock their salary.”

He added: “About 99% of the staff here are females and they are being exploited, they are low paid, some of them are having to walk for an hour to get to work because they have been moved.

“It's absolutely obscene, they are offering a care service but they don't' care about their own staff's person needs.

“This is a disaster, it’s harassment and bullying at its worst.”