Mencap - a charity organization claimed today that 74 NHS patients with learning disabilities have needlessly died in the last decade because of discrimination. It accused the health system of failing ...

Aaron Plummer, 20, from Walthamstow in London has a learning disability and cerebral palsy. Starting at Leyton Jubilee Park, Aaron will be running a marathon route in his local area with his support ...

Mencap, the learning disability charity, and Inclusive Employers have issued a lobbying pack, allowing employees across the country to challenge their employer to adopt a more diverse recruitment ...

People with learning disabilities are being given do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in England. Charity Mencap told The Guardian that many were told they would not be resuscitated if they got COVID-19.

When Brian Rix asked me to contribute a chapter on everything Mencap wants to see change for people with a learning disability – and to do it in around 5,000 words – my immediate (private) reaction ...

Just 30% of people would feel comfortable sitting next to someone with a mild learning disability, new research has revealed. As part of their Here I Am campaign, Mencap has released their results of ...

Dating website OkCupid has drawn outrage for using an "inappropriate, offensive and discriminatory" question to help it decide which of its users would make a good match. Mencap, a leading U.K.

More than half of people with learning disabilities in employment say their first job helped them gain independence, according to Mencap's First Employment survey. The survey of just over a thousand ...

LONDON -- Learning disability campaigners are calling on dating app OkCupid to apologise and remove an “offensive and discriminatory” question from its site. Users who signed up for OkCupid were asked ...

Mencap knows that people with a learning disability face huge inequalities. They are more likely to be socially isolated and sadly, people with a learning disability die on average up to 23 years ...

The model, 23, who is the first contestant with Down syndrome to appear on the show, went head to head with Balvinder Sopal on Sunday night's dance-off however the EastEnders star survived her third ...