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Can you solve it? The simple question almost everyone gets wrong

The stencil puzzle that revolutionised IQ testing

The Guardian - UK

Katie Price’s son Harvey in Guinness World Record charity bid for the world’s longest drawing of a train

The 21-year-old is on the autism spectrum and was born with disabilities including partial blindness, ADHD and Prader-Willi syndrome

Evening Standard

‘It’s a tax on disability’: rising English social care costs force many into debt

As outgoings exceed income, people can’t afford to pay for the support they need along with normal expenses

The Guardian - UK

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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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

Mencap staff 'placed on protective notice' due to ending of ESF funding

'It is no longer sustainable for the organisation to deliver services at this level beyond the end of March 2023'

Belfast Live

‘Why can’t we be the hero?’: George Webster on acting, ambition, romance and big breaks

He is a CBeebies star, a Bafta winner, an author and an ambassador for people with Down’s syndrome. Is there anything George can’t do? Well, there is one thing, says his mother …

The Guardian - UK

Disabled care home residents evicted in charity’s dispute with councils

Exclusive: Leonard Cheshire says it can no longer afford to subsidise care services inadequately funded by councils

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of disabled people in Greater Manchester had their benefits stopped while in hospital

If a person has to spend 28 days or longer in a hospital, their PIP payments are suspended under the so-called 'hospitalisation rule'

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The Independent UK

Next PM ‘must be more intelligent about social care after years of neglect’

Analysis by the Care and Support Alliance suggests an ‘astonishing’ one in eight older people are going without the social care they need.

Irish Mirror

Hollyoaks' Emily Burnett set for charity mountain climb with aunt who has learning disability

Hollyoaks actress Emily Burnett, who plays Olivia Bradshaw, is climbing Mount Snowdon with her co-stars and aunt Teresa Pope who has learning disabilities

Nottingham Post

Call for new business to open on Sherwood high street that's 'always busy'

Various suggestions were put forward

Belfast Live

Belfast man says 'don't give up' after being offered paid employment

Michael has overcome some setbacks, but is excelling today in his new role

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Daily Mirror

Tory contenders have so far neglected to mention our deepening social care crisis

Edel Harris, chief executive of learning disability charity Mencap, explains why the Mirror’s Fair Care for All campaign is so important, with 165,000 vacant social care posts as of March this year

Daily Mirror

Tory leadership rivals urged to tackle social care crisis with system at 'breaking point'

The boss of disability charity Mencap pleaded with Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to focus on how to ease pressure on the sector

Daily Mirror

Shocking stats which lay bare the poverty crisis facing disabled people in UK

Charity Mencap said people with learning disabilities are "facing a disproportionate cost of living crisis" and need more support, with working age disabled adults twice as likely to live in poverty

Evening Standard

Learning Disability Week 2022: Dates, theme and how to get involved

There are 1.5 million people in the UK living with a learning disability.

Liverpool Echo

Support worker who skipped Christmas Day to work attends Royal garden party

Lesley McCormack has helped those with learning disabilities for 16 years now

Bristol Post

Oliver McGowan's legacy lives on after law is passed in his name

"This training will save lives"

The Independent UK

Millions of older people are lonely and feel cut off from digital world – survey

About one in 10 people aged 65 or over said feelings of loneliness made them feel worried or anxious, a poll by the Mental Health Foundation found.

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