Disabled staff among about 70 Scope employees to lose their jobs

Scope’s planned redundancies follow a wave of job cuts across the charity sector. Photograph: Simon Dack/Alamy

Scope expects to cut more than a fifth of its staff this year amid mounting financial pressures, with about a third of those affected to be disabled employees.

The disability charity announced a consultation last week over plans to place 124 of its 326 corporate roles at risk of redundancy, a move likely to result in about 70 job losses in the summer.