Policy paper

Royal Mencap Society

Published 23 July 2018

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

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Form for submitting commitments for the Global Disability Summit 2018

Your organisation:

Type of organisation: Civil Society Organisation

If other: Click or tap here to enter text.

Name of organisation Royal Mencap Society

Charter for Change

Please read the attached Summit Charter for Change: the principal legacy of the Summit. If your organisation is happy to sign up to the Charter, please confirm by putting a cross in the box below.

My organisation signs up to the Summit Charter for Change ☒

Your organisation’s commitments to achieve the rights of people with disabilities in developing countries

A. Commitments to eliminate Stigma and Discrimination:

Please select the category which your commitment most relates to: Stereotypes, attitudes and behaviours

Please enter the exact wording of the commitment/s, including details of others who has supported its development (75 words limit):

Mencap will work to transform society’s attitudes to learning disability.

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

By 2020, we will have:

  • improved our knowledge (and that of others who work in this area) of the impact of stigma and discrimination on people with a learning disability
  • reduced stigma and discrimination through increasing contact among young people with and without a learning disability
  • supported people with a learning disability to be more visible in the media in a positive way

Page 16-21 of our Annual Review details steps we have taken and work to do in detail: https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018-01/2017.009%20Annual%20Report%20WEB.pdf

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