CAST YOUR eyes on the Scope website and you will see a mission statement that says they exist to: “make this country a place where disabled people have the same opportunities as everyone else.”

They continue with a declaration that until this happens: “We provide support, information and advice to more than a quarter of a million disabled people and their families every year.

“We raise awareness of the issues that matter. And with your support, we'll keep driving change across society until this country is great for everyone.”

Maybe those who run this charity ought to refresh their minds on the mission, because there are five severely disable adults and their families in Salisbury wondering just where the aspiration has gone.

It is without doubt Scope has failed these occupants of their care home in Shapland Close.

To send these people to various quarters of a neighbouring county with just three weeks’ notice is not the kind of treatment you’d ever expect from those who profess to care.

Such a heartless decision is questionable, but then why the rush? Was it perhaps a calculated view that the shorter the time allocated to the change would create less of an opportunity to object and challenge?

If so, they will have failed on every aim they profess to have. They will have demonstrated a lack of opportunity for everyone, second class support and an inability to raise an issue when it mattered.