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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1958, the groundbreaking ‘Brooklands Experiment’, conducted by New Zealand psychologist Professor Jack Tizard in Reigate, UK, compared the progress of children with a learning disability ...

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 ...

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 ...