Mencap
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Project funding
£234,439
Funding round
Set up in 1946, Mencap is a national charity working with children and adults with a learning disability and their families and carers. Our main activities are:
- Campaigning for equal rights and an end to discrimination
- Providing housing and support to over 6000 people.
- Helping people to gain skills and find work
- Community support that improves the day-to-day lives of a people with a learning disability.
We are using the Parenting Fund to run a project to support parents with a learning disability. We want to help parents with a learning disability to develop parenting skills by using established providers, such as Sure Start and Home-Start.
The project is building on the excellent work of the Ann Craft Trust (ACT) in Nottingham. They recently completed a three-year project to support parents with a learning disability, working with volunteers at Home-Start Nottingham. It brought substantial benefits to the parents involved. We want to take this work to the next level by training a large number of parent support providers to support parents with a learning disability.
To this end, a free training pack will be developed, in partnership with ACT, that can be used to improve the capacity of parent support providers to work with parents with a learning disability. It will include information on communication, child protection and where to go for further support. The training will mean that support providers will be able to include this hard-to-reach group of parents.