PEOPLE with learning difficulties are to be gven the chance to gain NVQs in a new training shops being set up by Watford and District Mencap. The Training Shop in St Albans Road, Watford is due to ...

Health care staff should be better trained to deal with people with learning difficulties, Mencap will urge this month. In a report out next week, the charity will warn that people with learning ...

Charities including Mencap, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Sense today called for social care training funding to no longer be channelled through local authorities, to ensure non-statutory providers ...

Jordan Tooke died in August following complications from kidney dialysis Greater awareness is needed in how to treat people with disabilities after a man died in a hospital following complications ...

“Social care workers put their lives on the line during the Covid-19 crisis and we know they deserve better. “While opportunities for training and development are an important part of the puzzle, ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh stepped out to show support for one of her long-standing patronages on Wednesday, a day after she donned overalls to visit HMS Daring in Portsmouth. Sophie, 58, attended ...

Eoin Kenny (34), who had trained for the Belfast marathon with Mencap last year enjoyed it so much, that he decided to do the Waterside Marathon this September. Eoin, a campaign’s assistant for Mencap ...