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Learning disability news from Mencap.

Photo of a young man and his support worker looking at a menu
 
19 March 2013
The government’s social care reforms will be unsustainable without greater integration a cross party group of MPs and peers have warned
Getting on a bus
 
14 March 2013
Northern Ireland Assembly urged to work together to make transport more accessible for people with a learning disability
Picture of a boy in his bedroom
 
14 March 2013
Mencap cautiously welcomes the exemption of disabled children from the bedroom tax
Stuck at home
 
12 March 2013
Concerns about the quality of services for people a learning disability have been raised in the latest Care Quality Commission Care Update
Taxi sign
 
8 March 2013
Findings will help shape the taxi services for disabled people and their carers
Una Brown
 
7 March 2013
Prestigious award for Mencap in Northern Ireland’s development manager
Bedroom tax
 
7 March 2013
Call to government to look again at how the ‘bedroom tax’ affects disabled people and their families
Infant school girl plays with bubbles
 
6 March 2013
Important victory for children follows Mencap’s campaigning on the Children and Families Bill
Mareen Humphreys
 
6 March 2013
Information officer reaches quarter century mark with Mencap in Northern Ireland
 
5 March 2013
Castlebeck, the company which ran Winterbourne view assessment and treatment centre which closed in 2011 after horrific abuse was uncovered, has gone into administration