Homelessness

Hello @speakthetruth121

Welcome to the community, thank you for sharing your thoughts. 

I think with homelessness and addiction you make a superb point. Access to those kinds of services are hard even for a non-disabled person to come by, however for a disabled person accessing such things is even more difficult due to inaccessibility.

It's true that in general disabled people don't have equal access to services and that is something Scope will always campaign to change, it's a question of educating some sectors about the challenges faced by disabled people and giving others who have the capacity to do better the kick up the backside to implement positive change.

The issues you mention in your post seem to be ones that you are very passionate about, have you had difficulties in any of those areas in the past? Please note that there will always be support available for you, and if you have particular examples of places where poor accessibility is demonstrated, or where disabled people are being exploited, feel free to send us an email to community@scope.org.uk so we can discuss things further.

For Scope, one of our main beliefs is in the social model of disability, which explains that a person's disability or health condition is never the thing standing in the way of a person living their life to the full, the thing standing in their way is society, and how inaccessible it can be. The disabled person never has, and never will be, the problem, the problem is as you say that services are not accessible or available for disabled people and that contributes towards so many of us finding parts of life a struggle.

As touched on above, if you or someone you know has been impacted by any of the issues you mentioned in your post, we are always here if you want to talk about it.