Green Paper Discussion - includes accessible formats and consultation event sign up links!

I realise that in its infancy SCOPE along with many others that were set up by the Government were actually held back. Scope I believe were aslo involved with Remploy a company that was set up to find "disabled" and long term sick people, work, but as you may or may not know because of the Acts and Laws governing re-employment of this group they stiffled the needs of them and made it harder to employ them by the need of adaptions to get them employed for safe access and regress to work, and also the need for them to be "shadowed" while at work by "champions" that would look after them while on the premesis.

This is where we are now, since they have to log in like everyone else while there, and in case of a Fire, or practice drill for evacuation, these champions were the first to go into action to make sure they were able to evacuate in a timely maner, and safely.

The government on paper are supposed to do this anyway, and employers were also given a subsady to employ so many disabled people, but bec ause of changes to the referendum and the increase of things like buisness rates and adaptions some employees could not afford the adaptions.

Scope is charity run, so you would think with what Scope actually do this would be the first thing the government would assist in. YES, there is a budget for adaptions to both work and home, but this budget instead of being increased by the numbers claiming Disability Benefits is being CUT?

This latest thing with the Green Paper is a classic example of work manipulation, where the budget for disabled is given, BUT, now is including people who have been on the Dole for a long time and abandonded, and those that are long term sick by saying work is good for "people" and does according to their surveys say they will do everything to get "people" back into work by increasing the BASIC LIVING WAGE.

but why were we left behind knowing that the cost of living as a disabled person is around £950?

How do you equate, the cost of living rise to us as "Non-working people that may not be able to work, yet are DISABLED 24/7, while others of working age or not, still get all the benefits with out the needs of adaptions or medical assistance, or prescriptions to survive every day to function?