<P> Over time, thanks in large part to the influence of Bill Hargreaves, the first trustee with cerebral palsy, the charity's aims extended to improving and expanding services for people with cerebral palsy and disabled people in general . Bill's pioneering work in employment in the 1950s supported over 1,500 disabled people into their first jobs . In 1962, he set up the 62 Clubs where disabled people could choose and control their own leisure activities . Through its employment services, Scope continues to support disabled people to have the same opportunities as everyone else . </P> <P> In 1963 it merged with the British Council for the Welfare of Spastics to become The Spastics Society . The Spastics Society provided sheltered workshops and day centres for people with cerebral palsy (commonly referred to as spastics at the time, despite spasticity being a symptom of only one variant of cerebral palsy), who were seen as being unemployable in mainstream society . The Society also provided residential units and schools, as well as opening a chain of charity shops . </P> <P> The term spastic was long used as a general playground insult . In the 1980s, this became more charged, partially because of the Blue Peter programmes following the life story of Joey Deacon in an attempt to show disability in a positive light during the International Year of Disabled Persons . Consequently, the society changed to its current name, Scope on 26 March 1994, following a two - year consultation with disabled people and their families . </P> <P> In November 1996, Scope AGM voted in favour of an individual membership scheme to give a voice to the 20,000 people that Scope and its local groups are in contact with every year - the first major UK disability charity to do so . In 1998, Scope individual members voted in elections to Executive Council . However the first person with cerebral palsy to play a major managerial role was Bill Hargreaves, who had been elected to the Executive Council back in 1957 . </P>

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