News

  • Disabled woman
    15 May 2013
    A new Parliamentary Inquiry is warning the Government that a ‘devastating’ lack of local support risks pushing disabled people into crisis.
  • Disabled student using the Soundbeam
    15 May 2013
    Meldreth Manor School in Hertfordshire came second in a competition celebrating 25 years of the Soundbeam Project.
  • Disabled woman
    14 May 2013
    The 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.
  • Scope CEO Richard Hawkes
    14 May 2013
    This 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.
  • Christina Jobson
    14 May 2013
    The Whitehouse Hotel in Llandudno has won the Employability Related Services Association's (ERSA) Small or Medium Employer of the Year award. The hotel has been working with Scope, which delivers the UK government's Work Choice initiative in partnership with employment and skills experts Working Links, to fill vacancies.