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 ...

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 nurse has raised more than £3,000 by running a marathon in support of people with learning disabilities. Jonathan Beebee, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...