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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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Flu Vaccination Reminder This Winter💉😷
This is a reminder to protect yourself and those around you by getting your flu jab this autumn. The vaccine is free for people with learning disabilities and helps prevent severe illness, GP visits and hospitalisations. It's especially important for those with long-term conditions to stay healthy, even if they manage…
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DWP providing voluntary help to people on LCWRA.
The DWP have just announced the redeployment of 1,000 specialist Jobcentre staff to help those on sickness benefits. These Jobcentre staff will provide voluntary help to people on Universal Credit with no requirement to look for work or engage with job help because of their condition. The work coaches – known as Pathways…
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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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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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As We Near World Mental Health Day – Tips For Looking After Our Mental Health 💆
Mental health and wellbeing are very close to my heart. Therefore as we approach World Mental Health day, I also wanted to reshare some tips from an earlier post for looking after our Mental Health which have been helpful for me personally. 💜 Looking after our mental health shouldn’t just be something we do when things are…
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Notifications
I have the box ticked to get a notification in my account (not email) when someone “mentions” me. This used to include a direct mention i.e. @(name) but also if someone quoted me. Now it’s not doing it when someone quotes; only a direct mention. I find this is awkward because more often than not people quote my post but I…
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Emergency Preparedness Phase One - The Foundation
This is the first of Six Phases of Emergency Preparedness, which is discussed in this thread: https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/139513/preparing-for-emergencies-and-catastrophes This phase has the following problems to work through to prepare for emergencies: EMERGENCY CONTACTS LIST: Create an emergency contact list of…
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Naidex 2026 - Birmingham & Naidex South - Farnbourough
https://www.naidex.co.uk/news-article/naidex-unveils-bold-new-look-for-2026-and-expands-with-two-major-new-launches?utm_campaign=16864529-Naidex%20Marketing%202026&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=391782099&utm_content=391782099&utm_source=hs_email
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What are your concerns about a potential Digital ID?
There's been some talk on the community regarding the governments potential plans to roll out a digital ID and this is something we're keen to get your feedback on. As everything is a hypothetical right now, we won't be answering any questions, as no one really knows right now and there are no actual plans in place. But…
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Come and Join Our International Day of Disabled People Online Event!
Join us on 1 December for Scope’s 17th members event! Together, we’ll mark the International Day of Disabled People by celebrating the power of lived experience and the leadership of disabled people. Our speakers will share what transforming attitudes means within their own communities — exploring how disability intersects…
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Pip tribunal won
hello everyone, I want to tell you that I left a message from 2023 behind. now I would like to ask you and please help me because I can only resist. I had the court on September 24 and I won, at which I received a sheet from pip informing me that they cannot pay me, because they want to appeal the decision they made, can…
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Benefits
Hi Everyone, Im hoping to get some advice about benefits. Im claiming carers allowance as im a full time carer for my daughter, im getting carers allowance and universal credit. I've been diagnosed with fibromyalgia this year and I have depression, ive been told to claim pip and tell uc,but im not sure how or what to…
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Preparing for Emergencies and Catastrophes
World Mental Health Day this year was on October 10, as we were reminded on this forum by @Holly_Scope. The focus this year is: "The purpose of World Mental Health Day is to improve knowledge, raise awareness and mobilise efforts in support of mental health around the world. This year's theme – 'Mental health in…
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Has anyone contested the Assessors Report (pip review) prior to a decision being made?
Ive just had my pip review. Telephone consultation last Thursday. I requested a copy of my assessors report and it arrived today. Whilst she wrote alot of what I actually said when it came to choosing a descriptor for each task she didn't take any of it on board. Ive heard you have a small window to write and contest the…
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Our friend and colleague Albus (Upsetting content)
Hello everyone, I am writing to share some very sad news about our colleague and friend @Albus_Scope Unfortunately, following a short illness, Albus passed away very suddenly late last week. Albus was part of the community team for the past two years and cared so deeply about the community and all of you. I know he made a…
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Site Mainstay Left The Forum
What has happened to Bluebell21? I am asking as I can't believe such a large part of this community has left. I for one will miss her input.
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So this is the plan
So 2028 2029 we will be put on time limited unemployment insurance and told to look for work yes its still going through parliament but whys no one all over this whats happened with charities unions??
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Single Work Capability Form WCA50 for UC and ESA launching 24th November
The DWP are launching a single form to assess work capability from the 24th November. This will replace the UC50 and ESA50, however, these forms are still going to be accepted for a significant period of time. They have done this to make things simpler and have changed the form to improve accessibility and make the wording…
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From Benefits and works
Reform UK declared war on PIP claimants and on advice agencies in a press conference last week, as they promised to slash the benefits bill by more than £9 billion a year. Amongst their plans are: stopping PIP for 80-90% of claimants with depression and/or anxiety, instead these claimants will be put on a fast track to…
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Scc universal credit
Ive been reading the scc conditions for health element of universal credit its really strict literally has to ne a constant disability from what im reading even severe mental health if fluctuating wont get it
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Government's Response to the Pathways to Work Consultation
Hi everyone. The government has published a response to the Pathways to Work Consultation. Please note that this doesn't set out any further plans for changes to the benefits system, it just breaks down the responses they received from the consultation. Nothing will be changing immediately. You can read the full response…
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EE/BT
Two weeks ago my Internet went down just heard that they had been hacked source code the Lot !!
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Rebate
I had an email saying I get rebate for my gas 150 I haven't had one in years said I will recieve letter im post take to post office
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Can we have a new board for Scotland's ADP please?
Hi, Just thought it would be handy to pull all the ADP stuff together and have a section for ADP which is going a different way from pip with regards how it's administered. Also the new carer's allowance in Scotland (which i forget the name of even though i'm on it!!) Make things easier to find for folks wanting info re…
