Digital Unite has been enlisted by the UK’s leading learning disability charity, Mencap, to help their independent affiliated Network Partners improve the way they use digital technology and create a better future for people with a learning disability.

Throughout December 2020, we encouraged people to support others to use digital technology to get – and stay - connected.  As we will all remember for years to come, no doubt, the 2020 festive season was like no other. With in-person connections being hard if not impossible, we all had to use digital tech more and more creatively.

Logo of Aspire, a new employability programme for people with learning disabilitiesAre you helping adults with learning disabilities build their skills for work? Would you like to do this in a better, more supported way?

Then you’ll want to join our new free employability programme called Aspire.

Not having access to a computing device and an internet connection can be one of the biggest barriers to someone getting online. This guide has some great tips of how to get online in an affordable way.