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Holby City actress joins Mencap’s R-word pledge
Actress and Mencap supporter Ty Glaser has become the latest high-profile supporter of Mencap's R-word campaign,…
Mencap fights to keep Wirral-based day centre open
Learning disability charity Mencap is helping people with learning disabilities fight to keep Moreton Day Centre…
Learning disability rights champion, Carl Poll, dies
Carl Poll, a leading social justice and learning disability rights campaigner, has died after an illness.
Paralympic athlete provides boccia coaching to group with learning disabilities
A Paralympic athlete is coaching a group of adults with learning disabilities in Essex to play boccia in a weekly…
Parents of children with learning disabilities need more support to plan for the…
Parents of children with learning disabilities need more support to help them plan for future, including arranging…
Include us in
In this guest blog, Elizabeth Archer from Mencap explains how young people with learning disabilities can get more…
Learning Disability Today 2012 shortlisted for Conference Awards
Pavilion’s 2012 Learning Disability Today conference has been shortlisted for the upcoming Conference Awards 2013,…
Getting shirty: “Keep calm; Down’s syndrome is only an extra…
In this guest blog, Steve Palmer talks about how a T-shirt slogan is galvanising parents of, and people with,…
Group with learning disabilities record song for Red Nose Day
A group of people with learning disabilities at a Doncaster day service wrote and recorded their own song for Red…
Employees with learning disabilities more likely to be attacked at work
Employees with learning disabilities are more than twice as likely to be attacked, intimidated or bullied at work…
New WCA stats add to evidence that change is needed
Criticism of the work capability assessment (WCA) for employment and support allowance (ESA) has been regularly…
Skittles team knocks down barriers
A team comprising people with learning disabilities has celebrated its sixth season competing in a local skittles…