As we enter party conference season, LDE Co-Founder Gary Bourlet lays out his thoughts about what people with learning disabilities want to see from social care.

LDE will be talking to politicians about social care at Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative party conferences over the next month.

Here are the latest jobs that are available with our members and organisations that we work with.

Here are the latest jobs that are available with our members.

Richard Hunt supported by Sonia Boue recently completed two mixed media pieces on board. Visit disabilityarts.online to read more about Richard and his work.

This is a guest blog from LDE member Robina Mallett. Robina is the Family Carer member of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme’s national steering group.

Press Release

July 2017

Danny Tozer died on 22nd September 2015 after having a seizure in his bedroom in a shared house where he was supported by Mencap.

We wrote about this awful news and you can read our thoughts here. Our Co-Founder, Gary Bourlet, also wrote a response which you can read here.

Today the Care Quality Commission (CQC) released a report about the state of mental health services from 2014 to 2017.

The report found that although some mental health services have improved, there are still problems.

Lots of people are talking about sleep-ins and the National Minimum Wage at the moment. It is a very complicated issue.

We have written this plain English statement for our members.