Celebrating Learning Disability Week
This June, Learning Disability Week (20 to 26 June 2022) will celebrate the amazing impact of people with a learning disability in our society and shine a light on the issues many still face.
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Learning Disability Week: Support and embracing creativity during difficult times
This Learning Disability Week Mencap support workers speak exclusively to Enable about how they’ve embraced this year’s theme, art and creativity, throughout the pandemic.
Learning disability: a battle for information
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, people with a learning disability have been left behind in the provision of support. In the new normal, what needs to change to better assist the learning disabled community? People with a learning disability have their say.
The importance of friendship and community during Learning Disability Week
Learning Disability Week is well under way, and the theme for this year is the importance of friendships during lockdown.
Sanctuary Supported Living residents share stories for Learning Disability Week 2019
To mark Learning Disability Week 2019, residents from Sanctuary Supported Living have shared stories of how sport has helped them to gain confidence, stay active and become more independent.
Here We Are: Sport bringing people together this Learning Disability Week
Learning Disability Weeks 2019 (17 – 23 June) is looking at getting people with learning disabilities out of the home, connected and getting active with their local community.
Just 6% of people with a learning disability are in employment – it’s time for change
Learning Disability charity Mencap has published new research giving evidence for the business case for employing staff with a learning disability. The charity is using…
Learning Disability Week highlights isolation faced by young people with a learning disability
1 in 3 young people with a learning disability spend less than 1 hour a day outside homes – Launch of Learning Disability Week Learning…
Bus Bullying – a horrible journey, yet daily routine for some
Amy Clarke, who has a learning disability, is a Digital Assistant at the learning disability charity Mencap. It was an ordinary Wednesday evening and I was…
Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow returns to lead the fight for Learning Disability Week
Star of Game of Thrones, Kit Harington, has spoken out regarding his cousin who has Down’s syndrome by offering support to Learning Disability Week, organised…
David Cameron among a fifth of new MPs who pledge to listen to concerns of people with a learning disability
**151 newly elected MPs pledge to listen to concerns of people with a learning disability, including PM David Cameron** **9 in 10 Brits think the…
Learning Disability Week 2014: the importance of firsts
In a guest post for Enable, Jan Tregelles, chief executive of Mencap, writes about the importance of this year’s Learning Disability Week theme – celebrating…
People with a learning disability remember their first time for Learning Disability Week
2014’s Learning Disability Week starts today on June 16 and Mencap, with the help of Holby City and Emmerdale actress Ty Glaser, are calling for…
Halow receives funding from St. James’s Palace Foundation
Monday 19th August 2013, at the start of Learning Disability Week 2013, which runs from 19 – 25 August, Guildford-based charity, the halow project, announced…
Super-model’s mum backs Mencap awareness campaign
Caroline White, whose son Seb was the first child with Down’s syndrome to feature in a major UK high street advertising campaign for M&S last…