Safeguarding means making sure that adults with care and support needs, and children and young people under the age of 18, in contact with the MS Society, are protected from abuse.

See Group Handbook A5: Health, safety and wellbeing

On 1 November 2018, cannabis for medicinal use was legalised.

This is an important milestone for people with MS, and over a thousand of our supporters made it happen, by calling on the Government for change.

But, while the change in law means specialists can now prescribe cannabis for medicinal use, we’re concerned that the temporary guidance will discourage specialists from prescribing it at all.