Hartlepool Borough Council has joined a fight to protect learning disability nursing and will lobby the government to tackle the "crisis" it faces.

Many adults want romantic relationships, but for people with learning disabilities it is much harder and sometimes even ...

This year, Dennison Commercials were delighted to support Mencap in Northern Ireland and the vital work they do to support ...

THE former director of a Salisbury charity shop has died aged 89. Nigel Scott was well known in the city for his contributions to the South Wiltshire branch of Mencap, a charity that supports people ...

THE former director of a Salisbury charity shop has died aged 89. Nigel Scott was well known in the city for his ...

Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, has made a surprise TV appearance tonight in the Strictly Come Dancing Final. Prince Edward’s wife appeared on the show in a brief video message as part of a ...

Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has been awarded the Turner Prize for work that includes vivid abstract drawings and hanging sculptures, the first artist with a learning disability to win Britain's most ...

Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’ Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner Nnena ...

Nnena Kalu, who uses cardboard and tape to create her work, received the prestigious art award. By Alex Marshall Reporting from Bradford, England Nnena Kalu, an artist who uses videotape, plastic ...

The students at America's elite universities are supposed to be the smartest, most promising young people in the country. And yet, shocking percentages of them are claiming academic accommodations ...

Administering an exam used to be straightforward: All a college professor needed was an open room and a stack of blue books. At many American universities, this is no longer true. Professors now ...

The Independent, Standard and ITV News among others carried an interview with Eddie's family about the negligent care that caused Eddie's death from asphyxiation after he was wrongly fed jelly, and ...