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United Response has appeared in a major feature in Community Care magazine. The article includes feedback on the success of the Every Vote Counts campaign, interviews with our Chief Executive and one of our young voters, and exclusively reveals the number of people with learning disabilities who exercised their democratic rights in the 2010 general [...]

We’ve had two separate pieces of coverage from the BBC relating to Every Vote Counts. One concerns the campaign itself, while the other focuses in more on the actual report Both articles are worth checking out. The first is titled: Call to encourage voters with learning difficulties, the second: Voters with learning disabilities ‘disenfranchised’. James [...]

Our Every Vote Counts campaign has seen excellent coverage online – especially in the wake of the report launch event we held at Westminster last week. To give you an idea – and to acknowledge the various people, sites and organisations that have linked through to us – I have compiled a modest roundup of [...]

When Harrogate service manager Wayne Dunn was chatting to four people we support, he was shocked to find out that none of them could name their local council reps. After doing some research, he tracked them down and after a quick house meeting, agreed to invite them round for afternoon tea. “I expected to get [...]