Higher risk | Scope confirms heavy job cuts, disabled staff significantly affected

Disability charity Scope has confirmed plans to axe more than 20% of roles in a bid to cut costs, with disabled staff at a higher risk of losing their jobs.

A redundancy consultation process will review 124 of 326 corporate roles at risk, The Guardian has reported. That number is expected to be whittled down to 70 job cuts by summer.

Roughly one third of the job cuts are expected to impact disabled employees at the charity.

Disabled Scope staff to be heavily impacted by job cuts

Scope’s chief exec, Mark Hodgkinson, confirmed that the proportion of disabled staff with roles at risk of redundancy is greater than their non-disabled colleagues.