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Independent mental capacity advocates (IMCAs) are seeing a significant increase in Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) work since two landmark cases saw the terms ‘deprivation of liberty’ redefined, an advocacy organisation has…
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Animated family films How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Frozen will be July’s Autism Friendly Films, service provider Dimensions has announced.
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Chessington World of Adventures Resort has partnered with The Changing Places Consortium to become the first theme park in England to install a Changing Places for customers with learning disabilities.
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Bob Pearce has worked for Mencap and supported people with a learning disability for many years. Here he shares stories of how people with a learning disability come to terms with the later stages of life.
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A South Yorkshire Learning Disability Health Action Team joined forces with a local street dancing crew to help deliver health advice to a group of young people as part of Learning Disability Week.
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The GB Learning Disability Athletics Team has returned to the UK with four medals from the Inas Open European Championships, which took place in Bergen Op Zoom in the Netherlands last week.
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Kevin was nervous about becoming a dad because he has a learning disability. But now he is now the father of two teenage sons, one who is going to college and the other has a job. “It’s been a really good experience seeing them grow up, I’m…
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Ben lives in Wiltshire and has been supported by Mencap to live independently. In this blog he shares his story of moving into his first home.
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A pilot programme in Reading has given people with a learning disability to take part in canoeing session.
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Roxanne Potts is a youth coordinator at Mencap’s Inspire Me project. Here, she speaks to three of Mencap’s Young Ambassadors about their first time experiences of voting, why it’s important to them, and what needs to happen so that more…
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