PARENTS of sick, disabled children face losing much-needed help when their current care ceases in June.

The Dragonfly Team, based at Winchester hospital, will see its three-year lottery grant expire at the end of June and so far, there are no definite plans for future funding.

The carers, who make home visits to 59 families with disabled children with life-limiting or threatening illnesses across Mid Hampshire, Eastleigh and Test Valley, hope to be redeployed elsewhere in the Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust.

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