Below is an extract from the new book All About Us! The story of people with a learning disability and Mencap. The book is compiled by Mencap president Brian Rix. The text below is by Mencap chief ...

Mencap, the learning disability charity, and Inclusive Employers have issued a lobbying pack, allowing employees across the country to challenge their employer to adopt a more diverse recruitment ...

More than half of people with learning disabilities in employment say their first job helped them gain independence, according to Mencap's First Employment survey. The survey of just over a thousand ...

Telecoms giant Vodafone has teamed up with learning disability charity Mencap to connect over 45 supported living homes using Internet of Things technology. The Connected Living project will use ...

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LONDON -- Learning disability campaigners are calling on dating app OkCupid to apologise and remove an “offensive and discriminatory” question from its site. Users who signed up for OkCupid were asked ...

A watchdog group has said that patients in the United Kingdom with learning disabilities who contracted the coronavirus were given unnecessary “do not resuscitate” orders. Mencap, a watchdog group ...

Whether you walk alone or with friends, family or colleagues, the money you raise will support the vital of work of Mencap to help people living with a learning disability in the UK and their families ...

The founder of a charity which supports people with learning disabilities to live full lives will be honoured with a Blue Plaque. The accolade to Judy Fryd, who founded Mencap in 1947, will be put up ...

People with learning disabilities were not initially classified as a very high priority in the COVID-19 vaccine plan. Yui Mok/PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo When it comes to people with learning ...