Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Mencap

‘Social care costs for working age and lifelong disabled could be £17bn by 2030’

Costs for 18–24-year-olds could rise by 40% within the next six years, the analysis also suggested.

Evening Standard

Loss of NHS specialist nurses will lead to deaths of people with learning disabilities, experts warn

“We need more, and we know that more people will die if we’re not there,” warns learning disability nurse Katy Welsh

The Independent UK

Mencap charity sells its "too big" London HQ for £8.5m following working from home revolution

Around 200 employees were based at the 18.600 sq ft office before the pandemic

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

End solitary confinement for children and limit it for adults, review demands

Report author says ‘my heart breaks’ as she warned the practice for people with learning disabilities has no therapeutic benefit.

The Independent UK

Disabled people are receiving degrading treatment in an overstretched NHS

Letters: Dan Scorer of Mencap responds to a report on a survey in which NHS staff said they don’t have enough time for patients

The Guardian - UK

Harvey Price sets new Guinness World Record

The 21-year-old drew a 21.3 metre-long picture of his favourite train – a Thameslink engine and carriages

Evening Standard

Can you solve it? The simple question almost everyone gets wrong

The stencil puzzle that revolutionised IQ testing

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Katie Price’s son Harvey in Guinness World Record charity bid for the world’s longest drawing of a train

The 21-year-old is on the autism spectrum and was born with disabilities including partial blindness, ADHD and Prader-Willi syndrome

Evening Standard

‘It’s a tax on disability’: rising English social care costs force many into debt

As outgoings exceed income, people can’t afford to pay for the support they need along with normal expenses

The Guardian - UK

17 lives lost: London exhibition turns lens on state-related deaths

Images featured taken under direction of relatives of people who died after contact with state apparatus

The Guardian - UK

Two Met Police officers sacked over discriminatory WhatsApp messages

Two serving Metropolitan Police officers have been dismissed over discriminatory messages they sent to colleagues in a WhatsApp group, including some making fun of Katie Price’s disabled son, Harvey.

Evening Standard

Details of 'abusive' messages shared by police about Harvey Price emerge at hearing

Eight Metropolitan Police officers were found guilty at the hearing

Wales Online

ESF funding loss 'due to Brexit fallout and Stormont impasse' as charities hope for support

Mencap NI has said that its employment services have lost 70% of their funding due to the loss of ESF

Belfast Live

'I'm a football coach with a disability – others in the community aren't as lucky'

Sas Granville is a Myth Buster for learning disability charity Mencap – and is working to challenge peoples' perceptions when it comes to people with a disability and sports

Daily Mirror

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Belfast Live

How the loss of the European Social Fund will impact society's most vulnerable and marginalised

Mencap has announced that over 50 jobs are at risk in its employment services as a result of the loss of funding

Belfast Live

Mencap jobs fears: Lisburn & Castlereagh Council to press Stormont over funding

"We should be doing our best on LCCC to help as Mencap in Castlereagh can only do so much in isolation, we urgently need a refunding solution."

Belfast Live

Mencap staff 'placed on protective notice' due to ending of ESF funding

'It is no longer sustainable for the organisation to deliver services at this level beyond the end of March 2023'

The Guardian - UK

‘Why can’t we be the hero?’: George Webster on acting, ambition, romance and big breaks

He is a CBeebies star, a Bafta winner, an author and an ambassador for people with Down’s syndrome. Is there anything George can’t do? Well, there is one thing, says his mother …

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Disabled care home residents evicted in charity’s dispute with councils

Exclusive: Leonard Cheshire says it can no longer afford to subsidise care services inadequately funded by councils

Manchester Evening News

Thousands of disabled people in Greater Manchester had their benefits stopped while in hospital

If a person has to spend 28 days or longer in a hospital, their PIP payments are suspended under the so-called 'hospitalisation rule'

The Independent UK

Next PM ‘must be more intelligent about social care after years of neglect’

Analysis by the Care and Support Alliance suggests an ‘astonishing’ one in eight older people are going without the social care they need.

Irish Mirror

Hollyoaks' Emily Burnett set for charity mountain climb with aunt who has learning disability

Hollyoaks actress Emily Burnett, who plays Olivia Bradshaw, is climbing Mount Snowdon with her co-stars and aunt Teresa Pope who has learning disabilities

Nottingham Post

Call for new business to open on Sherwood high street that's 'always busy'

Various suggestions were put forward

Belfast Live

Belfast man says 'don't give up' after being offered paid employment

Michael has overcome some setbacks, but is excelling today in his new role

Daily Mirror

Tory contenders have so far neglected to mention our deepening social care crisis

Edel Harris, chief executive of learning disability charity Mencap, explains why the Mirror’s Fair Care for All campaign is so important, with 165,000 vacant social care posts as of March this year

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department for Work and Pensions

Guinness World Records

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.