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2023
Scope reports surge in first time charity shoppers during cost of living crisis
Scope reveals shocking levels of online trolling experienced by disabled people
Extra costs for disabled people go through the roof
Renowned journalists take on London Marathon to raise awareness of invisible disabilities
Scope response to the chancellors 2023 spring statement
Scope's response to Centrica reporting record profits
Charities and non profits call for discounted energy bills for low income households
2022
Disabled passenger dies at Gatwick Airport - our letter to Transport Minister
Too many disabled child do not feel safe in playgrounds
Scope responds to Chancellor's £21 billion support package
Scope responds to Government changes to Warm Home Discount
Disabled children excluded and isolated from local playgrounds
Disabled people facing £1 billion shortfall in support due to spiralling living costs
Cost of living crisis: response to Chancellor's Spring Statement
Charities warn number of disabled households in fuel poverty set to double
Scope seeks equality champions for new awards
Response to Government lifting all coronavirus restrictions
Energy and the cost of living crisis
2021
Andrew McDonald CB, former Chair of Scope has died
National Disability Strategy 'falls short' of what disabled people expected and deserve
Scope responds to the health and disability green paper on welfare
Scope comments on Health is Everyone's Business consultation response from Government
Freedom day: disabled people's feelings about lifted restrictions
Make It Count: Scope launches accessible active challenge
Scope responds to the lifting of shielding
Scope responds to the 2021 Budget
Music legend Robin Millar pedals to raise pounds for Scope
Scope launches Disability Energy Service and Utilities Report
Decades of failure leaves half of disabled benefits claimants in poverty
Third lockdown leaves disabled people cut off from basic support
2020
Families with disabled children at breaking point this Christmas
Disabled people struggling to access supermarket deliveries as slots book up in Christmas rush
Virgin Media and Scope:Tackling the disability employment crisis
Disability employment faces a cliff edge
Councils fail on legal web accessibility duty
Disabled people are facing an unthinkable dilemma between health and wages
Disabled people fear being 'pushed out' of post-lockdown world
Disabled people fear they are being forgotten by Government
Prime Minister is forgetting disabled people and risks turning back clock on equality
Disabled people struggle to get food and essentials during coronavirus
Shop closures across Scope in response to coronavirus
Scope's response to the Budget
2019
Andrew McDonald CB resigns as Chair
Government announce drive to tackle barriers faced by disabled people
Businesses urged to take action over disability employment crisis
Scope responds to Amber Rudd's speech on welfare reform and employment
2018
Corporate reporting of disability in the workplace - November 2018
Scope appoints new chief executive Mark Hodgkinson - November 2018
Scope calls for minister for disabled children and families - October 2018
Scope launches Disability Gamechanger campaign - August 2018
Our letter to Theresa May - July 2018
Scope responds after judge grants High Court review of Universal Credit - May 2018
Disability employment gap has not changed in a decade - May 2018
Blue badge scheme extended - January 2018
2017 and earlier
Chancellor makes derogatory comments about disabled people - December 2017
Scope responds to proposed changes to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) - February 2017
Scope concerned by reported relaxation of assisted suicide guidance - July 2014