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

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 ...

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

Organise a Mencap One Big Walk this September and help raise funds for the 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK. Whether you walk alone or with friends, family or colleagues, the ...

A “trailblazer” mother who founded Mencap is to be honoured with a blue plaque at the house where she set up the learning disability charity. Judy Fryd began her campaigning work at her home in ...

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 ...