Avon and Somerset police have signed up to Mencap’s ‘Stand by me’ police promise to show their commitment to ending hate crime against people with a learning disability. Mencap launched the ‘Stand by me’ campaign during Learning Disability Week 2010 and calls on police services to commit to a police promise that will help make sure disabled people can live ... Read More »
Over 100 people with a learning disability and people with lived experience of mental ill-health have attended a Capacity Symposium in Belfast to explore how their right to make decisions in all aspects of their lives can be made a reality. Read More »
Learning disability charity Mencap has responded to the sentencing of two care assistants, who have been jailed for the mistreatment of severely disabled patients in their care at the Solar Centre in Doncaster. Read More »
Lorainne Bellamy represented Mencap, the learning disability charity, at the annual Buckingham Palace Garden Party yesterday. She has worked for the charity for 31 years. Read More »
Mencap has joined a national chorus of groups and individuals calling for the councillor who said disabled children to be put down to resign. Read More »
To date nearly 100 families have shared with us how they have been devastated by the death of a loved one with a learning disability, due to bad practice and neglect in the health service. Our reports Death by Indifference and 74 deaths and counting have concluded that this is a result of institutional discrimination in NHS services. Read More »
Inspectors have warned that cases like the deaths of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter could be repeated because police officers are too embarrassed to ask victims of crime if they are disabled. Mencap have told Daybreak that 34 out of 43 of the forces have signed up to their hate crime charter, Read More »
People with learning disabilities are dying on average 16 years earlier than they should, because the NHS does not properly investigate and treat their physical complaints, an inquiry has found. A confidential inquiry into deaths in the south-west, carried out by Bristol University Read More »
A charity has said it is shocked by the government’s decision to change benefits for severely disabled children. Mencap said it will mean more reassessments and confusion among families. At present, such children are entitled to Employment Support Allowance. Read More »
Following a fabulous day of fun and fundraising on Friday, 1st March everyone at West Berkshire Mencap was happy after a successful day at the charity’s annual Corporate Race Day. Now the money has been counted they are even more delighted having raised an amazing £24,000, Read More »
Ever since the 1969 inquiry into Ely hospital in Cardiff, improvement in the care and support of people with learning disabilities has been spurred by scandals. The most recent progress came five years ago, following revelations of abuse and neglect in Cornwall and in Read More »
Care workers who admitted a total of 38 charges of neglect or abusing patients at a private hospital have been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court. The 11 workers from Winterbourne View near Bristol were shown pinning down and hitting patients, in a BBC Panorama undercover report shown last year. Read More »
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