Voices If you're a woman with a learning disability, getting a cervical cancer screening can be traumatic – here's why For too many women with learning disabilities and autism, 'no' can be the ...

Louise has a mild learning disability and receives 10 hours a week of support from Dimensions to help her with day-to-day things. Louise is very content and happy with her long-term boyfriend.

HuffPost UK has previously spoken to women with learning disabilities, their carers and charity workers about the struggles they also have accessing cervical screening.

Just a third of women with a learning disability are receiving a vital cervical screening in England, figures show.

Wheelchair user Kat Watkins says the consultant conducting her smear test assumed she was not sexually active because of her disability – and that she had ‘a very odd shape’ (ITV) As ...