England’s nursing disability workforce is at risk of ‘imminent collapse’, according to campaigners who want an urgent meeting ...

Generally, people with learning disabilities die 20 years younger than those without learning disabilities and about 39% of ...

Include the needs of people with a learning disability and autistic people in prevention programmes, aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing avoidable morbidity and mortality e.g. though ...

A new era of support has begun for adults with learning disabilities. Harpenden Mencap officially opened its purpose-built Support Pod on Saturday, September 13, at its latest development, marking the ...

Mencap knows that people with a learning disability face huge inequalities. They are more likely to be socially isolated and sadly, people with a learning disability die on average up to 23 years ...

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 ...

Adrian Poulton, 56, died in an NHS hospital in September 2021, with an internal report later finding that a lack of nutrition ...

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 ...

Just 30% of people would feel comfortable sitting next to someone with a mild learning disability, new research has revealed. As part of their Here I Am campaign, Mencap has released their results of ...

A man with Down’s Syndrome died after a hospital mistakenly failed to give him food for nine days, say his devastated family.

People with learning disabilities are dying due to a chronic shortage of learning disability nurses and a failure to train ...