Action for Blind People's Cormac McCarthy has highlighted the disproportionate effect youth unemployment is having on young disabled people.
The BBC is looking for parents who are blind and partially sighted and couples who are planning on having children to take part in a documentary.
The announcement by the Government that it is making eye health a public health priority has been welcomed by the UK Vision Strategy, a united cross-sector initiative.
The main campaigning group for disabled children, Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM), has succeeded in getting the Government to consider the needs of children in its planned health reforms.
Paediatricians have today warned that children with chronic disease and disability "will particularly suffer" if NHS health reforms are to go ahead, as care will become 'more fragmented'.
Last updated: 16 March 2012