Mencap rebrands housing division to reflect changes

By Hannah Jordan, Third Sector Online, 4 April 2008

Mencap has changed the name of its Housing and Support Division to Personal Support and Housing Division to reflect its modernisation and changing style of service.

The division will continue to support people with learning disabilities by moving most of its services out of residential care homes and into more flexible independent accommodation. The department was originally set up set up to offer an alterative to hospital accommodation. Since 2001, the percentage of the charity’s beneficiaries...

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