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16 May 2013Scope responds to new allegations made by a doctor previously employed by ATOS to deliver the Government's fitness to work tests has said the system is unfair and "skewed against the claimant". -
15 May 2013A new Parliamentary Inquiry is warning the Government that a ‘devastating’ lack of local support risks pushing disabled people into crisis. -
15 May 2013Meldreth Manor School in Hertfordshire came second in a competition celebrating 25 years of the Soundbeam Project. -
14 May 2013The Government announced plans to introduce better integration between health and social care services in an attempt to solve the social care crisis. At the same time, the Joint Parliamentary Inquiry into the social care crisis publishes its findings and warns that the current social care system is having a devastating impact on disabled people’s lives. -
14 May 2013This week sees two important challenges to the law on assisted suicide. Two severely disabled men and a widow have taken their 'right-to-die cases' to the Court of Appeal. Meanwhile Lord Falconer is introducing an assisted dying bill to the House of Lords. Scope is against any changes to the law.
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