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Vodafone and Mencap partnership delivers technology that improves the lives of people with a learning disability
Vodafone teams up with Mencap on ground-breaking Connected Living project, co-designed by people with learning disabilities and their support workers.
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Another increase in number of vulnerable people locked away in inpatient units following missed transforming care targets
Government must invest in community-based care packages to get children, young people and adults with a learning disability/autism out of inpatient units.
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“Long overdue” guidance on the use of physical restraint on children with a learning disability in schools a welcome "first step", according to Mencap
Today, the Department for Education and the Department for Health and Social Care have published “long overdue” guidance on use of restraint on children in specialist schools and other settings.
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Mencap responds to CQC's report on how Mental Health Act code of practice is failing people with a learning disability
Despite changes being made to the Mental Health Act code of practice, the CQC's report has found that these changes have failed to strengthen the safeguards needed to protect people with a learning disability.
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Every child has the right to an education, whether they have a disability or not: Mencap supports SEND Action's legal challenge against the Government
Today, Mencap joined SEND Action and other campaigns and disabilities charities to call on the Government to provide adequate funding for the special educational needs and disability system.
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The human rights scandal the Government continues to ignore
Mencap and CBF urge Government to get people with a learning disability and/or autism out of inpatient units.
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Department for Education's Children in Need report "fails to address the falling number of children with a learning disability accessing social care" according to Mencap this Learning Disability Week (17-23 June)
Despite the publication of this report falling at the start of national Learning Disability Week (17-23 June), the needs of too many children with a learning disability and their families are still being ignored, according to learning disability charity M
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Virgin Money and Mencap team up to bring people together through sport
Mencap and Virgin Money are commencing their charity of the year partnership with a series of sport and inclusion events during Learning Disability Week which bring people with and without a learning disability together through sport.
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New research from Mencap shows bullying of people with a learning disability leading to social isolation
Shocking new research shows that a third of people with a learning disability fear being called names or bullied when they go out.
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CQC's report exposing failures at Northampton adolescent service "long overdue"
Mencap calls for urgent action.
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Over 1,200 handwritten thank you cards to be delivered to Mencap's volunteers - 7 of whom have volunteered for 20 years or longer
Mencap is to deliver over 1200 handwritten thank you cards to volunteers who have made a big difference to the lives of people with a learning disability to mark this year’s Volunteers’ Week.
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On Profound Impact Day Mencap asks NHSE to make ‘simple changes to save lives’
On Profound Impact Day Mencap asks NHSE to make ‘simple changes to save lives’
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