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Mark Gale, a policy officer for Mencap, which is releasing a major report on disability hate crime next month, said: I've been speaking to focus groups and some are saying they are still very disappointed with the police.
Disability hate crime could lead to more suicides like Fiona Pilkington 2011
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The choice of IGEL by Lifeline further underlines the company's rapidly growing success in the charitable sector with customers such as Mencap, the Salvation Army and Elizabeth Finn existing IGEL users.
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The choice of IGEL by Lifeline further underlines the company's rapidly growing success in the charitable sector with customers such as Mencap, the Salvation Army and Elizabeth Finn existing IGEL users.
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"I've been offered a job as a support worker and events organiser for Mencap, which is just want I want to do.
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Lisa Sharpe's death is one of 74 deaths of patients with learning disabilities over the past decade that the charity Mencap claims were caused or contributed to by "institutional discrimination in the NHS".
'Appalling neglect': how NHS let down the most vulnerable 2012
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We share Mencap's concerns that some people with learning disabilities are not receiving the high quality health care that they should expect.
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Research by Mencap demonstrates that 90% of people with a learning disability had experienced bullying and harassment.
Rape and crimes against the disabled: the state admits it should do more | Afua Hirsch 2011
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Planned cuts to the disability living allowance could see 500,000 disabled people losing money, the charity Mencap has said.
Wheelchair users block Oxford Circus to protest at disability cuts 2012
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She is working with a dedicated team of civil servants, alongside Mencap chief executive Mark Goldring and Professor Jim Mansell, who has twice been commissioned by the government to write reports setting out good practice in the care of people with challenging behaviour.
Why a critic of institutional care is taking over from Southern Cross 2011
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The 74 vulnerable patients' deaths over the past decade were either caused or complicated by mistakes in hospitals and decisions by staff who failed to treat them properly and displayed ignorance or indifference to their plight, according to the charity Mencap and families of some of those who died.
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