
ALT A purple graphic with four oatmeal coloured boxes on top. In each box there's a statistic relating to people with a learning disability. They read, twice as many people with a learning disability die avoidably than in the general population. One in five people in the UK have seen someone mocked because of their learning disability. 28% of people in the UK still believe that learning disability relates to a mental health problem. Disabled households need £975 a month to have the same standard of living as non-disabled households.

ALT A maroon graphic with four beige squares on it. There are stats within the squares which read: The amount of learning disability nurses has nearly halved between 2009 and 2023. Evidence suggests people with a learning disability experience poor mental health at a rate around double that of the general population. People with a learning disability die earlier than the general population. An estimated 20 years earlier for men and 23 years earlier for women. Around 3/4 of people with a learning disability are not on GP learning disability registers.













