What if we’d all known someone with a learning disability as a child?
People with a learning disability can often face prejudice and exclusion in society on a daily basis, but could this be different if all of us knew people with a learning disability from an earlier stage in life? I went to Millfield School in Somerset to find out how some of the best friendships start at an early age. I work at Mencap and very aware of the many challenges facing the 1.4 million people with a learning disability in the UK. I hear many anecdotes about people too scared to travel on the bus when school children are around for fear of ridicule or worse.
30 Jul 2015