Learning Disability Week 2025
Annually Mencap run their Learning Disability Awareness Week campaign. This year it runs from 16 – 22 June 2025 and the theme is Do you see me? This is about people with a learning disability been seen, heard and valued.
In the North East and North Cumbria the Learning Disability Network mission is to tackle health, education and social care inequalities faced by people with a learning disability in the North East and Cumbria so they have equal and equitable access to high quality health, education and social care support to enable good quality of life for them and their families.
We work in partnership with our stakeholders across the Integrated Care System on a range of work projects all about tackling health and care inequalities.
To raise awareness of Learning Disability Week 2025 we have developed our communications toolkit which can be utilised by our partners to promote the work going on in the region. This year we are focusing on:
- Learning from the lived and deaths of people with a learning disability and autistic people (LeDeR)
- All behaviour happens for a reason – Positive Behavioural Support
- Epilepsy
- Cancer
- Screening programmes
- Reasonable adjustments
- Prevention of adult not brought
- Communication tips
- Workforce
- Peer education courses
Download our communications toolkit below.