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Disability Pride Event – Leeds
Scope Leeds Community Hub invites you to join us for an event to mark Disability Pride Month and celebrate our talented, resilient and diverse community 💜 Disability Pride Month is a time to celebrate disabled identity — and to shine a light on the barriers that still exist. This uplifting event brings people together to…
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Celebrate Disability Pride at Scope's Bolton Hub!
We are thrilled to invite you to celebrate Disability Pride with Scope! This is a fantastic opportunity to come together, connect and celebrate our community. Here are all the details you need: 📅 Date: Wednesday 1st July 2026 ⏰ Time: 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM 📍 Location: The Bolton Hub, Bold St, Bolton, BL1 1LS This is an…
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UK Heat Warning 🔥
With this heat warning over the bank holiday, we just wanted to share some information from the NHS website that might be helpful. Please take care of yourselves and one another. 💜 Actions you can take to stay safe in hot weather While many people enjoy warmer summer weather, hot weather can cause some people to become…
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Help shape the Disability Confident Portal
Scope is running a short, anonymous survey to help shape a new Disability Confident digital portal, focused on what genuinely helps with recruiting and retaining disabled people at work. We’re also inviting people to take part in a short, informal discussion to explore key themes in a bit more depth. If you’d like to share…
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Is your comment not showing up? This may be why.
To help keep our community safe and supportive, we’ve introduced a more careful keyword filter in line with the Online Safety Act 2023. This means that if a post contains certain flagged words, it won’t appear straight away, but instead it’ll be sent to our team for a quick review first. As we work 10am to 6pm, 7 days a…
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New Feedback Process: Help us improve the community
New Feedback Process: Help us improve the community We’re always working to make this community a safe, supportive, and welcoming space for everyone. Your feedback plays a big role in that. To make sure your thoughts are captured and reviewed efficiently, we’ve set up a new feedback form. This helps us manage suggestions,…
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Commonly used acronyms on the community.
Here on the community, many people will use acronyms when talking about various benefits, or conditions. I thought it could be useful to list many that are most commonly used. If you see any that aren't on the list, please feel free to mention them and we can add them to the list. AA - Attendance Allowance AP - Assessment…
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Scope community accessibility statement
Scope’s commitment to website accessibility We are committed to making our website (www.forum.scope.org.uk) as accessible as possible. It is tested every 6 months. We want everyone to be able to use our site no matter what their impairments are, or what technologies they use. This is part of our An Equal Future strategy We…
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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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How-to guide: Mobile device or tablet
Creating an account To post on the online community, you will need to register an account through the Register page. You can reach this page through a few different ways: Select the Enter icon in the top right corner of the screen, this will look like a tall rectangle with an arrow entering from its left side. This will…
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Introducing Scope's online community
What is Scope’s online community? Scope’s online community is a safe and welcoming online space where disabled people and their families can talk about the things that matter to them. Our members can browse our categories and create discussions or post comments to ask questions, make friends and share their experiences.…
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How-to guide: Desktop PC
Creating an account To post on the online community, you will need to register an account through the Register page. You can reach this page through a few different ways: Select the Register button in the top right corner of the screen. This will open the Register page. On the Home, Recent Discussions or Categories page,…
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Reporting content
Reporting content Sometimes you'll read something that you think breaks our online community house rules and shouldn't be allowed on the online community, or perhaps you just think the Online Community Team should be told about it. To report content that concerns you: Scroll down to the reaction bar (at the bottom of the…
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Online Community House rules
Welcome We are a community connected by disability. Make friends, share experiences, get the advice you need and discuss what matters to you. Please note, you must be 18 or over to join and use the Scope online community. The online community is for peer-to-peer support and is not intended as a source of medical or…
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It's International Sign Language Day! September 23rd
You can't see what I did behind the screen, but I just gave an amazing introduction to this day using (BSL) british sign language. You'll just have to take my word for it that it was brilliant. 😁 International Day of Sign Languages is celebrated each year on September 23rd. The day aims to raise awareness of the importance…
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Being engaging
How do. You guys reply or like posts.. I still haven't gotten the hang of this
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Benefits for children when 50:50 custody
hi, my son is going to start living with his father 50% of the time. I currently and always have claimed the child benefit and universal credit child element for him. He will be living with myself 50% of the time but his father has asked me to transfer the child benefit over to him so that he is elegible for another…
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Scope Open Letter: people with disabilities are controlled, not included
To members and all staff concerned, Please find attached my very honest piece that I wrote under my guest position at the Canary based on my experience as an elected assembly member. I know this view is shared amongst other assembly members and I stand with them all in solidarity. It's bitterly disappointing that we have…
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Am I forced to resign?
This discussion was created from comments split from: Would you like to share your Online Community experience? .
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Awarded LCWRA but statement shows Lower rate applied
Hi, hope someone can advise please. So I was on LCW from 2021, Last February 2025 my health had worsened and I reported a change of circumstances on my journal, the Jobcentre asked for a Fit note which then could not be uploaded so I sent ut to their email as advised by my local jobcentre, they then sent me a UC50 form out…
