How could the PIP assessment be improved? 🗒️ Tell us how, by taking part in our survey, and help us ensure blind and partially sighted people can meaningfully shape the UK Government’s upcoming review:  https://t.co/r3Z6WTvwVd

@candsalliance RNIB is clear that now is the time to press play. Too many people are waiting too long for support, having their lives put on pause. Sign our petition to call for action: https://t.co/9R4kjrG4Iw

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@candsalliance This included sharing stories of blind and partially sighted people who have drawn upon vital vision rehabilitation services – the social care service which equips people with sight loss with the skills needed to adjust to sight loss.

This week we took a stand. We joined with the @candsalliance, delivering a box full of stories from people who use social care, and asked the Chancellor not to forget the real figures that matter in her Budget. #FiguresThatMatter https://t.co/yejePXu4ap

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If you have sight loss and want to request health information in your required accessible format, we have a guide to help you:

A vital recommendation is that information during a crisis must be made available in accessible formats. But RNIB knows that a lack of accessible health and care information remains a serious ongoing problem for many blind and partially sighted people.

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The report reveals a stark lack of planning for the needs of vulnerable groups. It notes the disproportionate deaths experienced by disabled people, and that for months too little data existed to build understanding of this. Read our full response https://t.co/XyPd3e9Km1

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry’s second report highlights that too often the four UK governments failed to recognise and respond to the needs of disabled people, including blind and partially sighted people. Hear from people with sight loss in our short film:

Our In My Way report, published in September, shows that only 9 per cent of people with sight loss across the UK feel very confident in navigating their local area. Find out more: https://t.co/FY8lFH0ENM 4/4

Blind and partially sighted people should be able to walk down their local High Street safely and independently. That's why RNIB is supporting the community's call for urgent action to improve accessibility. 3/4

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Uxbridge Road is a nightmare to navigate for blind and partially sighted people. To walk down the street, pedestrians contend with a sea of trip hazards and obstacles, including advertising boards, street clutter and illegally parked cars. 2/4

We support the local campaign to make Uxbridge Road in London more accessible for all. Full statement below: 1/4

“Never again must decisions affecting all aspects of people’s daily lives be made without involving blind and partially sighted and disabled people from the very start.” https://t.co/tzEZy6Tzx6

“We urge the UK government and devolved administrations to improve their understanding of the effects of sight loss and account for this in policy making and future pandemic and disaster planning.

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“We strongly welcome the recognition that all laws and guidance must be in accessible formats.

“One year into the pandemic we are told the UK Government’s Disability Unit remained concerned about a lack of disability data even to understand the impact on different groups.

“Once the pandemic took root, blind and partially sighted people were affected not only by the virus itself but by the measures introduced to respond to the pandemic, yet it took months for the need for accessible communications (braille, large print, audio etc) to be understood.

“Prior to the pandemic, Baroness Hallett notes that planning ought to have taken place, as to how disabled people would be protected from both Covid-19 and the impact of restrictions such as a lockdown.

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Sophie Dodgeon, Head of Campaigns and Public Affairs at RNIB said: “Today's report lays bare how the UK government too often failed to recognise and respond to the needs of disabled people, including blind and partially sighted people. https://t.co/ERfhzdcQTz

The Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, has today published her second report. Baroness Hallett is calling for the prompt and thorough implementation of 19 key recommendations. Read about the report or watch a short film by visiting the link in our bio.