Press releases and comments
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30 July 2013High Court appeal against the 'bedroom tax' -
22 July 2013New report finds disabled people are more likely to be turning in desperation to high-cost loans and sometimes illegal lenders to pay bills and make ends meet. -
22 July 2013Atos told to improve fitness for work test reports. -
15 July 2013A revealing poll into men and women’s shopping habits as part of our bid to get people to donate one million clothes to our charity shops. -
10 July 2013Including a single assessment for all health and social needs, and universal disability insurance. -
10 July 2013Councillor Collin Brewer, an independent member of Cornwall Council, has resigned for a second time over his comments on disabled children. -
3 July 2013Minister for Disabled People publishes plans to bring government disability strategy activity and plans together. -
28 June 2013The Government has today published proposals on the future of social care. Richard Hawkes, chief executive of disability charity Scope, said "More than 100,000 disabled people would be shut out of the system." -
26 June 2013Today the Chancellor said that £3 billion will be spent on social care. Richard Hawkes, chief executive of disability charity Scope, said "The Government has listened to disabled people, politicians and the public on social care." -
26 June 2013The chancellor has announced a cap on Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) which includes disability benefits. Richard Hawkes, chief executive of the disability charity Scope, said: "After £28.3 billion of cuts, disabled people can’t bear any further squeezes on their living standards." -
6 June 2013Following the Prime Minister's speech on the global social investment market and the launch of the Social Stock Exchange (SSE), Scope's CEO Richard Hawkes responds. -
4 June 2013Every pound spent on preventative and community services generates benefits to people, carers, local and central Government worth an average of at least £1.30. -
21 May 2013More than 100,000 disabled people will be left without essential support to get up, get dressed and get out of the house, unless the Government underpins its social care reform with an emergency injection of funding, the disability charity Scope is warning. -
21 May 2013MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee find that the Work Programme is failing the most disadvantaged jobseekers. -
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". -
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. -
8 May 2013New research from ADASS reveals the scale of the social care crisis facing councils and points to a 'bleaker future'. Scope responds to these findings. -
8 May 2013Richard Hawkes, Chief Executive of the disability charity Scope and Chair or the Care and Support Alliance responds to the announcement of a Care Bill in the Queen's Speech. -
30 April 2013Stephen Fry is calling on the British public to share ‘two words’ in a powerful new film launched today.
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