A letter signed by more than 100 charities and the Mencap president, Brian Rix, said decades of advances for those with learning disabilities could be lost The hard-won rights of people with a ...

Carolyn Fairburn, the new director General of the CBI seen here at their offices in London, 2nd November 2015. Commissioned by Pip Brooking for Business Voice Dame Carolyn Fairbairn DBE has been ...

The founder of a charity which supports people with learning disabilities to live full lives will be honoured with a Blue Plaque. The accolade to Judy Fryd, who founded Mencap in 1947, will be put up ...

Your contributor who referred to Sports Direct and Mencap as both “underpaying their frontline staff for years” (Letters, 12 September) overlooked a few rather important differences. Essential care ...

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The proceeds will be donated to the U.K. charity Royal Mencap Society, which works with people with learning disabilities Kit Harington is giving back. On Wednesday, the actor donated £7728.75, ...

Staff at a care home for people with learning difficulties are alleged to have spent thousands of pounds of patients’ money on DVDs, bingo trips, food and booze. Police were yesterday looking whether ...

Care home residents have been inappropriately charged by staff at one of Britain’s leading charities for products ranging from DVDs to Chinese takeaways. The Royal Mencap Society has already repaid ...

Reg Broad said that there was a "very slim chance" the branch could continue Cornwall's branch of the charity Mencap is facing closure because the members of its committee are standing down, its ...