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Safeguarding: What to do if you are concerned about someone
Keeping our members safe At Scope, keeping our online community members safe is our top priority. This guide will help you understand what a safeguarding concern is and what to do if you're worried about someone. What is a safeguarding concern? In our online community, we can't see body language or hear tone of voice. We…
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New life for CASCAIDr
Belinda Schwehr (pictured here), the founder of its original parent company, CASCAIDr the charity, is heading up a new management team. CASCAIDr CIC has been approved Following the sad demise of online legal advice charity CASCAIDr, I’m happy to be able to report that CASCAIDr CIC has now been approved by the Community…
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CASCAIDr Conversations: Podcasts on Principles! Social Care in England and Wales
CASCAIDr Conversations: Podcasts on Principles! At CASCAIDr, we know how the world of adult social care can seem impenetrably surreal – and how the reality is often very different from the rhetoric. We think people could do with a refresher on the underlying principles, which come from a set of rules called ‘public law’.…
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Advice about additional bedroom for couple who cannot share due to separate disabilities.
hi everyone, hope you are all well. My stage 1 and 2 complaint to the council was not upheld and I have to write to the Ombudsman now. My complaint was in respect of needing an additional bedroom for as a couple, both with disabilities. We are unable to share a bedroom. My partner has sleep apnea and wears a machine at…
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Question about housing benefit eligibility
I've read the information online and I just want to be sure I'm understanding it. It says if you started your UC claim after 2019, you aren't eligible for HB. But I can't understand what replaces it. Is there a replacement, or are you meant to pay your rent out of your UC? Is there any rent help and what are the…
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Help with housing
Hey I've lived in my council home since 2010 we are currently classed as over crowded with there being 5 people in a two bed I'm currently on the 9th floor and due to my lung disease,leg issues so on I have been unable to leave my home with confidence my issue being that although I can walk I can walk only sort distance…
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Where can I get help with furniture, essentials, and financial support after losing my PIP?
Hi everyone I have just moved into a property I am over 50 and have nothing in the place I have no bed no furniture nothing I am on a low income have had my pip taken from me and just get 344 a month I've tried everything looking for free stuff but it's all collection I can't do this. I suffer with back and joint pain…
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Hi, my name is caroleburridge! I am trying to apply for a dropped curb to a livewest property...
hi, I am trying to apply for a dropped curb to a livewest property. I have had permission to do so but am struggling to get the money together to make it happen. Does anyone know if there are grants to help and how I go about getting it? Thanks
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Disabled aids
I have real problem washing my hair because of my joint pain and stiffness in my shoulders and upper arm ,is there anything that could help. ? . Would also a seat across the bath, are they any good ? Where do I get them from?
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Worried my neghbour might report my singing in revenge of a noise complaint
As you read in prevous posts about my neghbour i am worried they might report my singing out revenge i always do for less than few hours maybe once a week.and always try to do afternoon to evening its one my austistic routes to help coupe and due to me having a very powerful voice and thin wall people can hear it. Spoke to…
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Anti social behaviour
I live in supported living provided by the Abbeyfield Society, it provides accommodation for people aged over fifty five which unfortunately I am. The bloke in the next apartment has a diagnosis of vascular dementia, however his behaviour is not solely predicated on his medical history. He was at one time an aide to Lord…
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Bedroom tax
Hello the council put me and my daughter into a 3 bed house knowing it will be to big plus the bedroom tax charge is £86 for a bedroom I'm never going to use which with everyone struggling right now I am 1 of them plus £27.00 service charges I'm having to pay aswell nobody seems to be listening to me
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As am disabled I am 64 am find very hard to get accommodation
iv done ☑️ 3 bids am living ground floor flat know it’s no longer shelted no more am looking for private property preferably bungalow or GFF
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Hi, my name is jewles! Hoping to move but need support, any ideas?
Hi there am 68 and l live with my friend and carer who is 55 in an inner city maisonette up three flights of stairs which are becoming increasingly difficult to manage. My adult son who is on the spectrum also lives with us. Both my friend and l have suffered strokes in the past and have various long term side effects…
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Furniture
Hi everyone I have just moved into a property I am over 50 and have nothing in the place I have no bed no furniture nothing I am on a low income have had my pip taken from me and just get 344 a month I've tried everything looking for free stuff but it's all collection I can't do this. I suffer with back and joint pain…
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Hi, my name is sunshine93! Hi, I’m a mom of four and I take care of my disabled sister. She has ...
Hi, I’m a mom of four and I take care of my disabled sister. She has cerebral palsy . I have a problem with the housing and I really need help with any advice of what to do. We live in a 3bedroom rented house and joined the house register 2.5 years ago when my sister had a really bad fall on the stairs and since then her…
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Proposed Cuts to the Disability Benefits
Hello everyone, I hope you are all continuing to keep safe and stay well. I don't need to tell anyone that at the moment, my anxiety levels are rising due to the Green Paper which has recently been published outlining the government's proposals to cut and reasses PIP. I was migrated onto PIP when the government phased out…
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Breathing space can they evict under g13,14?
entered a breathing space can they still evict under these grounds?
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Hi, my name is samanthajanex! Im just wondering if I can get some advice regarding rent.
good morning, Im just wondering if I can get some advice regarding rent. I’m currently living in a property, I paid the rent on March 4th which I believe takes me to April 3rd. I’m due to move house april 4th if I put this change in to UC on the 4th will I get the rent for the new property on April 12th? my assesment…
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Rent room
Can you rent a room have a spare room I'm with housing association thinking ways to sutv
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Tenancy succession
Hi I will get right to it recently my mother passed away and my sister and myself lived with her in her adapted council ground floor 3 bedroom flat. Now I have succeeded the tenancy but the housing association are saying we need to downsize because the place has a spare bedroom and is adapted for more people. I have lived…
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Hi, my name is alvb! My partner is on uc and at ymca how many nights a week is she allowed to ...
My partner is on uc and at ymca how many nights a week is she allowed to stay away for a max number of nights a week not including the weekend on a normal Monday to Friday
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Green Power scooters (hints and tips)
Hello Peeps, Razr here (JH500, 15mph), FYI, the only part on the green power scooters that utilizes the 60v combined power source is the motor and motor controller, the rest of the electrics are standard 12v going through a step-down converter (60v in 12v out), so therefore if you want to pimp your ride you can use any car…
