The Royal Blind School played host to the Deputy First Minister on Wednesday 22 February. John Swinney MSP, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, was invited to the Royal Blind School to see how it delivers education and care to young people with visual impairment, including some with complex needs. The school is run by national ... Read More »
This month the CAA announced their new guidelines to British Airports in relation to their disabled passengers, including those with hidden disabilities. (Document CAP1411) To quote from the Introduction: “A disabled person and person with reduced mobility is defined in the Regulation as “any person whose mobility when using air transport is reduced due to any physical disability (sensory or ... Read More »
People across the country are being challenged to blindfold themselves for a day to raise money for Scotland’s largest visual impairment organisation, Royal Blind. Partnered with a buddy for the duration of the #Blind4Day challenge, participants will be sponsored to go about their daily activities, gaining an insight into the challenges facing blind and partially sighted people. The challenge ... Read More »
RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) is encouraging GPs and other primary care professionals across the UK to sign up to its free GP Eye Health Network. The charity’s network aims to raise the profile of eye health within general practice and improve the quality of care for blind and partially sighted patients. Eye health now accounts for 4.5 ... Read More »
8 year-old Whitney was born with cataracts that slowly clouded both of her eyes. Her family couldn’t afford surgery to have them removed. Thanks to disability charity CBM, Whitney has now undergone a sight saving operation. Whitney lives with her mother and her two siblings in a village North of Uganda´s capital Kampala. Before the operation Whitney had not been ... Read More »
57-year-old Ken Reid, who is registered blind, arrived in the capital on 12 August, having cycled 750 miles from Edinburgh on a tandem to raise vital funds for RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People). Ken, who was diagnosed with degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa thirty years ago, visited all four of the UK’s capitals, as well as Dublin, during ... Read More »
Grant of £424,958 has been awarded to national deafblind charity, Sense, to fund the ‘Sporting Sense’ project. Sense, the national deafblind charity, has been awarded a grant of £424,958 from Sport England to increase opportunities for people with deafblindness to participate in sport and physical activity through its ‘Sporting Sense’ project. Sense will use the investment to continue developing a ... Read More »
Team leader of Birmingham conference centre retires after a decade of supporting blind people into work. Jo Parsons, team leader of Action for Blind People’s Concept Conference Centre, is leaving after 11 years of inspiring blind and partially sighted trainees. Jo was approached by RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) to set up the conference centre in 2005 to ... Read More »
National deafblind charity Sense has commented on the news that British surgeons in London have carried out a pioneering human embryonic stem cell operation in an ongoing trial to find a cure for blindness. Richard Kramer, Deputy Chief Executive at Sense, said: “If this ground breaking operation fulfils its aim it has the potential to transform the lives of the ... Read More »
Only 4 in 10 families of children with sight loss believe their child has received the essential life skills training that enables them to enjoy a childhood without having to rely on their parents. At Blind Children UK’s children’s tea party event at the LGA conference in Bournemouth yesterday, Pat Russell, Head of the Government’s Office of Disability Issues ... Read More »
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