The Mencap Manifesto: Bullying

Too many people with a learning disability are bullied in real life or get bullied online. This must change.

Mencap wants people with a learning disability to feel safe in their community or when they are online like everyone should.

The Online Safety Act is a new law that will help people be safer when online.

This law will change the way that social media companies and other websites will have to deal with abuse , bullying and other online harms.

It includes things like changing the way companies will have to deal with reports of abuse or bullying.

We want all political parties to promise to make sure these changes do make social media safer.

All political parties need to do more to challenge people’s bad attitudes towards disabled people.

Mencap wants the political parties to promise to make the laws on hate crime better.

Some ideas were made by the Law Commission on how to improve the laws. We want these ideas to become the new law on hate crime .

This new law would make sure that disabled people are treated the same as other groups that face hate crimes.