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A successful English Channel swimmer has helped to fund specialist coaching for people with disabilities. In August, Sophie Etheridge, from Godmancehster, Cambridgeshire, completed the famous crossing ...

A swimming star has gained national honours after battling the odds. Fiona Dawson, 36, was chosen as the overall winner for Sporting Achievement at Scotland’s first National Learning Disability Awards ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Learning to swim is a right of passage for many kids but for children with disability finding classes ...

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Two swimmers from Liverpool, Shauna Hogan and Michael Delaney, took part in the Mencap British Learning Disability Swimming Championships last weekend in Swansea. The pair are members of the Cheshire ...

This week is Learning Disability Week. It takes place in the third week of June every year and in 2024, it's running from the 17-23 June. The event, organised by the charity Mencap, and is an ...

Statement 1 Local authorities and clinical commissioning groups jointly choose a lead person to oversee strategic commissioning of services for all people with a learning disability. [new 2019] ...