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Richard Hawkes

Richard Hawkes is chief executive of the disability charity Scope.

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Where do disabled people fit into George Osborne's "aspiration nation"?
28 March 2013

From 1 April, six different cuts to support started affecting disabled people. The result will be disabled people losing their independence, struggling to heat their homes and forced to withdraw from communities. What part can they play under such conditions?

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Disability cuts: the big picture is terrifying
25 January 2013

Individual benefit changes seem minor, says the head of Scope. But taken together, they present a worrying vision of life for disabled people in Britain.

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