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Give disabled Covid jab, judge ...

Judges have ruled that disabled adults who cannot make decisions for themselves should be vaccinated against coronavirus (Covid-19). The Court of Protection intervened in a case last May. It involved ...

Social care cut when it was ne ...

Seven in ten (69 per cent) people with a learning disability had their social care cut when they needed it most, leaving many stuck in lockdown. That’s according to a survey of family carers by char ...

Call for release of report int ...

A charity has called for a review of a controversial learning disability hospital where staff abused patients to be made public. The National Autistic Society (NAS) says it is in the public interest ...

Charity condemns harm of benef ...

Benefit changes are harming people with a learning disability by making their conditions worse, says a charity. Mencap says when people move from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to the Personal Inde ...

Learning disabled die from lac ...

Up to 77 per cent of people who are learning disabled miss out on potentially life-saving medical help. The statistic comes from new research by the charity Mencap. It says more than 1,200 people ...

Call to educate young to stop ...

Mencap, the learning disability charity, is calling for children to be made more aware of disabilities from a young age in order to tackle a surge in convictions for hate crime. The call comes as the ...

Seashell Trust

Stanley Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire SK8 6RQ Tel: 0161 610 0100 Email: info@seashelltrust.org.uk www.seashelltrust.org.uk Seashell Trust is a national charity supporting children and young people w ...

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