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 ...

Below is an extract from the new book All About Us! The story of people with a learning disability and Mencap. The book is compiled by Mencap president Brian Rix. The text below is by Mencap chief ...

Plans to ramp up NHS care in neighbourhood health centres have come under fire for 'barely mentioning' people with learning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Dating website OkCupid has drawn outrage for using an "inappropriate, offensive and discriminatory" question to help it ...

An east Belfast man who completed the London Landmarks Half Marathon dressed as a gorilla has raised £13,000 for charity.

Telecoms giant Vodafone has teamed up with learning disability charity Mencap to connect over 45 supported living homes using Internet of Things technology. The Connected Living project will use ...