Mencap Manifesto: Wales
Mencap Manifesto: Wales

We want all political parties to support Ofcom to bring in the new laws on social media and support a campaign to raise awareness.
Ofcom is an organisation which makes sure that the media and social media follows the law.

We want all political parties to start a Energy Social Tariff for disabled people and their carers.

An Energy Social Tariff would set a lower price for electricity, gas and water for disabled people and carers.

We want all political parties to stop people with a
learning disability
A learning disability is to do with the way someone's brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things.
being at risk of having benefit sanctions.
Benefit sanctions are when you have your benefits stopped.

We want all the political parties to promise to look at how much money people get paid in their benefits and work out if this is enough for people to live on.

We want all political parties to continue to give more money to Access to Work.

We want Access to Work to give people with a learning disability job coaching before and after an internship.

An internship is when you get
work experience
Work
experience
Experience is when you have learned or tried something before.
is when you try out a job to help you learn new skills.
for a set amount of time.

There is a pot of money called the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
This is money is given to different projects such as
employment
Employment means having a job.
support for disabled people.

But this money is going to end in 2025.
We want all political parties to promise to keep giving money to a new fund for employment projects for disabled people.

All political parties should promise to follow the United Nations Convention on the
Rights
Rights are the things everyone should be allowed to do like have a say, or go to school.
of People with a Disability.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with a Disability is a document that says how disabled people should be treated.

We want all political parties to make sure people with a learning disability have the same access to money services with reasonable adjustments for them.

Mencap wants the political parties to promise to make the laws on
hate crime
A hate
crime
A crime is when someone does something wrong and breaks the law.
is when someone is hurt or bullied because of things like: their disability or their
religion
Religion is to do with the things you believe about the world. For example you may believe there is a god or something else. Examples of religions are Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism.
.
better.

Some ideas were made by the Law Commission on how to improve the law.
We want these ideas to become the new law on
hate crime
Hate crime is when someone does something to hurt someone because of who they are.This could be because of things like their race,
sexuality
Sexuality is how you feel about yourself and your body. It is about finding out and knowing what feels right for you.
or disability.
.

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