Scope (charity)

Scope
Formation1951
HeadquartersLondon, E15
Region served
England and Wales
Chief Executive
Mark Hodgkinson
Websitescope.org.uk

Scope (previously known as the National Spastics Society) is a disability charity in England and Wales that campaigns to change negative attitudes about disability, provides direct services, and educates the public. The organisation was founded in 1952 by a group of parents and social workers who wanted to ensure that their disabled children had the right to a decent education. Originally focused on cerebral palsy, Scope now embraces all conditions and impairment. Scope subscribes to the social model of disability rather than the medical model of disability – that a person is disabled by the barriers placed in front of them by society, not because of their condition or impairment.[1]

  1. ^ "Social model of disability". Scope.