Mencap is the voice of learning
disability.
The charity work with people with a learning disability to change
laws and services, challenge prejudice and directly support
thousands of people to live their lives as they choose.
Mencap do so many different things.
For example:
Support
people with a learning disability to get a job or take a
college course, or help them find a place of their own to
live in.
·Offer
advice about things like respite care, individual budgets or
transport services.
·Run
residential/day care services and leisure groups that are so
important to so many people with a learning disability, and
their families and supporters.
·Support
people with a learning disability to be part of their local
communities.
· Lobby
the government to change laws so that more and more people
with a learning disability can have control over their own
lives.
There isn't room to list everything Mencap do here, but you can
find out more about the different work
they do on their websites : www.mencap.org.uk
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