This resource is designed to educate coaches, leaders and staff at equestrian centres across the country about sight loss and the needs of people with a
visual impairment in equestrianism. It also provides recommendations on how they can adapt their equestrian opportunities to make them more suitable for VI people.
This resource has been designed to educate the coaching and
club network to ensure a greater knowledge of
VI Archery and VI Shooting and help enhance opportunities for more V I people to take part in these exhilarating sports.
This guide has been created with the specific purpose to assist anyone who is delivering sport and physical activities with support, ideas and guidance on how to include people with a
visual impairment. This resource is all about helping sport providers to be VI friendly through their provision of activities,
training, resources and support.
This report sets out to give a picture of the services and support provided by the
third sector for people with sight loss in Wales.
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This toolkit aims to provide helpful information to further enhance excellent local work that is currently happening, suggesting ways for
clubs and sight loss organisations to work in partnership, as well as offering guidance for those who are in the initial stages of considering accessible and inclusive sport.
This toolkit aims to provide helpful information to further enhance excellent local work that is currently happening, suggesting ways for
clubs and sight loss organisations to work in partnership, as well as offering guidance for those who are in the initial stages of considering accessible and inclusive sport.
Describes the services offered to
VI children by GVIS in Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen.
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This guide provides information relating to access for
guide dog owners to hotels, bed and breakfasts, etc. It sets out the legislative duties that owners and staff have under the
Equality Act 2010 which specifically requires entry to these premises for guide dogs. It also provides tips and
advice for owners, managers and staff on how to make their premises more accessible, how to communicate and assist guide dog owners, & contact details for more information.
A report calling on DWP to: Provide adequate resources to ATW so that support is put in place within four weeks of any application and claims are promptly processed; remove the need for an ATW renewal process for customers when their support needs are not changing; automatically extend ATW packages until renewals can be processed so individuals can retain support; provide automatic software upgrades to software previously approved as part of an ATW
grant; provide a ‘cost of living’ update for the value of ATW grant payments; fast track applicants who know what support they need.
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This report stresses the fact that the ROVI is the only qualified worker to make an
assessment of need in the case of people with sight loss and to deliver specific interventions. The cost benefits are known from research:
rehabilitation interventions have been shown to remove the need for continual and costly support from other
social care services and health.
The Adult UK sight loss pathway offers commissioners and practitioners a unique tool
to enable people with sight loss to get the right support at the right time and from the right person. It clarifies the pathway across health and
social care and so enables better partnership working and a smooth transition for the person with sight loss. It is a process map describing how the principles of best-practice can be applied to service delivery for adults with sight loss. Word version is at www.vision2020uk.org.uk/UKVisionstrategy.
Information about AMD, its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and coping strategies.
Under the
Equality Act 2010 there is a legal duty to make reasonable adjustments to ensure equality of access to healthcare services for
disabled people. Public bodies need to take positive action so that all access and communication needs are met. The document sets out the standards of service delivery that people with sensory loss should expect when they access healthcare. These standards apply to adults,
young people and
children.
Report from the WCB Conference 2002 on Arts. An accompanying survey report is also available.
The present survey of arts and
visual impairment complements work already done by WCB in the field of sport and leisure. Its purpose is to inform the planning of services and to encourage their improvement and expansion by identifying the ways in which visually impaired people currently make use of the arts, and the ways in which arts providers include visually impaired people.
Previous Pocklington-funded research has shown that the support needs of people with sight loss increase over time but that the support available is failing to keep pace. A more detailed follow-up study confirms that the changing needs of people with sight loss are still not being met.
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