To look at the issues facing people with a learning disability and their families. The group looks at the key issues of the day, across areas including health, social care, education, employment and benefits.
1. Closed consultation: Learning disability and autism training for health and care staff
12/04/2019 - Department of Health and Social Care
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Found: Learning disability
and autism training for
health and care staff
Please tell us what you
2. Closed consultation: Learning disability and autism training for health and care staff
12/04/2019 - Department of Health and Social Care
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Found: Learning disability
and autism
training for health and care staff
A consultation
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3. Royal Mencap Society - written evidence
06/06/2018 - Inquiry: Benefit sanctions - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: SocietyMencap supports the 1.4 million people with a learning disability in the UK and their families and carers.
4. Mencap - written evidence
11/07/2018 - Inquiry: Disability employment - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: Mencap Mencap supports the 1.4 million people with a learning disability in the UK and their families and carers.
5. Government response to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme 2nd annual report
12/09/2018 - NHS England
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Found:
of peo
ple with learning
disabilities
The Government response to the
Learning Disabilities Mortality
1. Health: Learning Disability and Autism Training
10/02/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: steps they are taking to mandate training on learning disability and autism for all health and social care - Speech Link
2: therapeutic resources to empower people with learning disability and autism and to educate those who support - Speech Link
2. Learning Disabilities Mortality Review
15/05/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: the response given to an Urgent Question on the learning disabilities mortality review originally made - Speech Link
2: with a learning disability have worse physical and mental health than people without a learning disability - Speech Link
3. Learning Disabilities Mortality Review
15/05/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: deaths among those of our population with a learning disability and to addressing the persistent health inequalities - Speech Link
2: Minister doing now to ensure that no more people with learning disabilities die early because of poor care?Lastly - Speech Link
3: recommendations that improve care for people with learning disabilities and autism and address the shameful - Speech Link
4. Autism and Learning Disability Training: Healthcare Professionals
22/10/2018 - Westminster Hall
1: e-petition 221033 relating to autism and learning disability training for healthcare professionals.It - Speech Link
2: professionals has never had training on learning disability or autism. This is unacceptable. Two thirds - Speech Link
5. Covid-19: Effect on People with Learning Disabilities
15/12/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: effect of the covid-19 outbreak on people with learning disabilities.It is a great pleasure to - Speech Link
asked by: Baroness Jolly
27/05/2020
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are putting in place to ensure that policies applied to people with learning disabilities recognise their individual needs. 2. Learning Disability
asked by: Sharon Hodgson
07/02/2020
... what steps he is taking to support disabled students with visual stress. 3. Learning Disability
asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle
17/07/2018
... what estimate his Department has made of the number of day centres for adults with complex learning abilities that have closed since 2010. 4. Learning Disability
asked by: Lisa Cameron
27/06/2018
... what steps his Department is taking to ensure that information on learning disability is included in the training of healthcare staff. 5. Learning Disability
asked by: Lisa Cameron
27/06/2018
... what steps his Department is taking to support the provision of continuing professional development in respect of learning disabilities for all front-line health staff.
21 Current APPG Officers
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Western Gateway
Adult Social Care , Autism , Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , Dying Well , Global Health , Holy See , Mental Health , Prescribed Drug Dependence
Lisa Cameron
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Joined: 29th September 201522q11 Syndrome , American Football , Antisemitism , Armed Forces , Armed Forces Covenant , Assistive Technology , Australia and New Zealand , Autism , Bahrain , Belgium , Boxing , British Jews , British Overseas Territories , Canada , Cerebral Palsy , Channel 4 , Channel Islands , Chile , China , Commonwealth , Darts , Dementia , Diabetes , Disability , Dog Advisory Welfare , Dying Well , Eating Disorders , Entrepreneurship , Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion , Fair Business Banking , Fairtrade , Financial Education for Young People , Foreign Affairs , Future of Retail , Global Health , Health , Holocaust Memorial , Hydrogen , Inclusive Entrepreneurship , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Japan , Liechtenstein , Luxembourg , Media , Mentoring , Montserrat , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Pacific Islands , Pro-Life , Psychology , Pubs , Qatar , Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 , Religion in the Media , Russia , San Marino , Serbia , Small Island Developing States , Social Media , Switzerland , Textiles and Fashion , Thalidomide , Twelve Steps Recovery Programme for Addiction , United Nations , United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development , Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics
Assistive Technology , Food Banks , Homelessness , Ireland and the Irish in Britain , Migration , Nuclear Energy , Taxis , University of Hull , Wine and Spirits
Accounting for Growth , Assistive Technology , Carbon Monoxide , Design and Innovation , Film and Broader Screen , Financial Technology , Global Education , Loneliness , Management , Manufacturing , Miscarriages of Justice , River Thames , Skills, Careers and Employment , Sustainable Resource , Transport Safety , United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Beer , Black Country , City Regions Transport , Commonwealth Games , Football , Furniture Industry , Global Education , Homelessness , Road Passenger Transport - Recovery and Renewal , Sepsis , West Midlands
British Hindus , Carbon Monoxide , Chalk Streams , Digital Regulation and Responsibility , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) Rights , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , South Western Railway , United Nations Women , Women in Parliament , Women, Peace and Security
Animal Welfare , Blood Cancer , Business Travel , Cancer , Caribbean , Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) , China , Commercial Radio , Devolution , Dyslexia and Other Specific Learning Difficulties , Explosive Threats , Flags and Heraldry , Future of Aviation , Heart Valve Disease , Historic Counties , Kurdistan Region in Iraq , Liechtenstein , Ovarian Cancer , Pancreatic Cancer , Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 , Radiotherapy , San Marino , St George's Day , Stem Cell Transplantation , Sustainable Aviation , Switzerland , Turks and Caicos Islands , Vegetarianism and Veganism
Philanthropy and Social Investment
Allergy , Bermuda , British Overseas Territories , Cannabis: Harmful Effects on Developing Brains , Caribbean , Dyspraxia , Endometriosis , Epilepsy , Fairs and Showgrounds , Fire Safety and Rescue , Food and Health , Funerals and Bereavement , Hairdressing, Barbering and Cosmetology , Human-Relevant Science , Japan , Liechtenstein , Liver Health , Maldives , Maternity , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Parkinson's , Pharmacy , Philately , Philippines , Photography , Publishing , Qatar , Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 , Recovery from Addictions , San Marino , Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia , South East Asian Nations , Zoos and Aquariums
Antisemitism , Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder , Beer , Cameroon , Cancer , Dark Skies , Eggs, Pigs and Poultry , Equitable Life Policyholders , Erasmus , Fair Business Banking , Frozen British Pensions , HIV and AIDS , Homelessness , Italy , Medical Cannabis under Prescription , Modern Languages , Netball , Parkinson's , Parkrun , Pension Clawback , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , Personal Banking and Fairer Financial Services , Roadside Rescue and Recovery , Rowing , Single Parent Families , Tennis , Wales in the World , Wrestling
Cancer , Cuba , Greyhound , Housing in the North , Human-Relevant Science , Mexico , Racing and Bloodstock , Radiotherapy , Scottish Sport , Transport Across the North , Western Sahara
Adoption and Permanence , Adverse Childhood Experiences , Ageing and Older People , Cycling and Walking , Dying Well , Flood Prevention , Homelessness , Medomsley Detention Centre , Mental Health , Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention , Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics , Women and Work , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Classical Music , Fair Business Banking , Gaps in Support , Independent Education , Oracy , Sixth Form Education
Muscular Dystrophy
Contact Details
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Mr Mark Harper MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 5056.
Email: mark.harper.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Matthew Harrison, Royal Mencap Society, 123 Golden Lane, London EC1Y 0RT. Tel: 020 7696 6009
Email: matthew.harrison@mencap.org.uk
Secretariat:
Royal Mencap Society acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.mencap.org.uk/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
Show/Hide28 Jan 2021
Royal Mencap Society
Secretariat From : 28/01/2021 To : 27/01/2022
£9,001
28 Jan 2020
Royal Mencap Society
Secretariat From : 28/01/2020 To : 27/01/2021
£9,001
11 Jul 2018
Royal Mencap Society
Secretariat From : 11/07/2018 To : 10/07/2019
£9,001
11 Jul 2017
Royal Mencap Society
Secretariat From : 11/07/2017 To : 10/07/2018
£9,001
15 Jul 2016
Royal Mencap Society
Secretariat From : 15/07/2016 To : 14/07/2017
£9,001
15 Jul 2015
Royal Mencap Society
Secretariat From : 15/07/2015 To : 31/07/2016
£9,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Learning Disability APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Kate Green
Vice Chair
Labour - Stretford and Urmston
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 27th January 2021
Paul Williams
Officer
Labour - Former Member for Stockton South
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Tom Brake
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Carshalton and Wallington
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 5th November 2019
Heidi Allen
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for South Cambridgeshire
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Justin Tomlinson
Officer
Conservative - North Swindon
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 29th August 2018
Mark Durkan
Officer
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Former Member for Foyle
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 2nd May 2017
Classical Music , Fair Business Banking , Gaps in Support , Independent Education , Oracy , Sixth Form Education
Bishop of Ely
Officer
Joined: 24th November 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
Autism , Children , Children who need Palliative Care , Commercial Radio , Dark Skies , Hajj and Umrah , Malawi , Morocco , Norway , Rugby League , Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , Veterans , Zoos and Aquariums
Chris Heaton-Harris
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Daventry
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 12th October 2016
Lord Rix
Co-Chair
Crossbench - Deceased - 20 August 2016
Joined: 29th September 2015Departed: 21st July 2016