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Mencap responds to “concerning” GP letters about coronavirus medical treatment
The charity is urgently looking into this issue and will be challenging this advice from GP surgeries.
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Mencap responds to new NICE COVID-19 guidance
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new guidance on the care of patients in critical care during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Over 2000 people with a learning disability and/or autism still locked away in inpatient unit while emergency coronavirus bill risks more being admitted
Mencap and the Challenging Behaviour Foundation call for urgent action and emergency investment in social care to stop more children and adults with a learning disability and/or autism being admitted into inpatient units during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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"Emergency measures must have the interests and safety of the most vulnerable in our society at its heart": Mencap responds to emergency CV19 bill
The Government has introduced emergency coronavirus legislation which makes provision for changes to the 2014 Care Act and application of the Mental Health Act.
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Mencap responds to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's 2020 budget
"Social care reform is just as much of a grand project as any infrastructure scheme and could have an even longer legacy" - Edel Harris
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Government and NHS at risk of missing another target
No decrease in the number of children and adults with a learning disability and/or autism locked away in inpatient units
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Government and NHS at risk of missing transforming care targets
2,185 children and adults with a learning disability and/or autism locked away in inpatient units at increased risk of abuse and neglect.
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Mencap calls for Government to fix social care for disabled people too
Mencap responds to the Queen’s Speech and calls for Government to make sure disabled people are not forgotten from the social care debate
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People with a learning disability seven times as likely to be lonely this Christmas
This Christmas the charity is calling for urgent action to be taken to tackle the loneliness epidemic faced by people with a learning disability.
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Failure to invest in social care is leaving 2,220 children and adults with a learning disability and/or autism still locked away in inpatient units at risk of abuse
Mencap and the Challenging Behaviour Foundation call for all political parties to commit to proper investment in social care in the community to stop people with a learning disability / autism being locked away in inpatient units.
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Inaccessible application forms are a barrier for nearly a third of people with a learning disability who want to work, according to a new survey from Mencap
Inaccessible application forms mean that nearly a third of people with a learning disability found it hard to apply for jobs
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Mencap and the Electoral Commission call on political parties to produce easy read manifestos to give equal access to the 1 million voters with a learning disability this General Election
With political parties gearing up to campaign for a General Election on 12 December, the UK’s leading learning disability charity Mencap and the Electoral Commission have produced an easy read guide to voting
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