Winston, as you are clearly only getting enough hours (just over 2 hrs a day) for Personal Care, then it should make it more straight forward for you to get your charges not only stopped but refunded back to the start of April this year. It may need you to put in an official complaint to the council.
As for how long it took to get SDS, in the first place, that was the same for all our committee, we all thought it was only happening to us as individual’s, that we were having to fight for a couple of years to get SDS, until we became a network and we realised that it was actually a council policy to deter people from getting SDS and use their in house services instead.
If you had enough (a few) of you that wanted to start up an SDS Network West Dunbartonshire, we (SDS Network South Lanarkshire) would be willing to meet you and advise you how to get started. Your’e Network could also become a member of SDS Scotland as we did. we have Mark from SDS Scotland who comes to our six weekly committee meetings on an advisory bases.