FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - The Untold Story

Mencap charity sells its "too big" London HQ for £8.5m following working from home revolution

Around 200 employees were based at the 18.600 sq ft office before the pandemic

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2023

End solitary confinement for children and limit it for adults, review demands

Report author says ‘my heart breaks’ as she warned the practice for people with learning disabilities has no therapeutic benefit.

The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023

Disabled people are receiving degrading treatment in an overstretched NHS

Letters: Dan Scorer of Mencap responds to a report on a survey in which NHS staff said they don’t have enough time for patients

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2023

17 lives lost: London exhibition turns lens on state-related deaths

Images featured taken under direction of relatives of people who died after contact with state apparatus

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2023

Two Met Police officers sacked over discriminatory WhatsApp messages

Two serving Metropolitan Police officers have been dismissed over discriminatory messages they sent to colleagues in a WhatsApp group, including some making fun of Katie Price’s disabled son, Harvey.

Evening Standard · Apr 14, 2023

Details of 'abusive' messages shared by police about Harvey Price emerge at hearing

Eight Metropolitan Police officers were found guilty at the hearing

Wales Online · Apr 13, 2023

ESF funding loss 'due to Brexit fallout and Stormont impasse' as charities hope for support

Mencap NI has said that its employment services have lost 70% of their funding due to the loss of ESF

Belfast Live · Mar 28, 2023

'I'm a football coach with a disability – others in the community aren't as lucky'

Sas Granville is a Myth Buster for learning disability charity Mencap – and is working to challenge peoples' perceptions when it comes to people with a disability and sports

Daily Mirror · Mar 16, 2023

How the loss of the European Social Fund will impact society's most vulnerable and marginalised

Mencap has announced that over 50 jobs are at risk in its employment services as a result of the loss of funding

Belfast Live · Mar 5, 2023

Mencap jobs fears: Lisburn & Castlereagh Council to press Stormont over funding

"We should be doing our best on LCCC to help as Mencap in Castlereagh can only do so much in isolation, we urgently need a refunding solution."

Belfast Live · Mar 3, 2023