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Employment assessment toolkit

A new toolkit to help those furthest from the labour market.

Confidence building programme for your clients

A suite of programmes designed to help build confidence and adaptation to living with sight loss.

New Labour Force Survey data for blind and partially sighted people

A new statistical analysis of the Labour Force Survey for blind and partially sighted people has been carried out. Read about the key findings.

Quality assurance standards

This new document identifies quality assurance standards that exist for the delivery of services that support blind and partially sighted people into employment, and professional development opportunities for accreditation to those standards.

Free employment mentoring service

Blind and partially sighted job seekers can now sign up to access an employment mentor to answer their questions and provide advice on a whole range of employment issues.

Work Capability Assessment independent review

Professor Harrington was reappointed to lead the third independent review in 2012. His third review sets out a series of recommendations to the Government based on the evidence he collected as part of the review and which complement the recommendations from his first and second reviews.

Vision in Enterprise toolkit

Our partners Action for Blind People have produced a toolkit for organisations supporting blind and partially sighted people in self-employment.

Watch our pre-employment video

A short film which brings to life some of the work we are doing to get blind and partially sighted people into work.

World Blind Union launch employment resource

The World Blind Union recently launched Project Aspiro - a career planning and employment website for people who are blind or partially sighted as well as service providers, friends and family, and employers.

Last updated: 5 March 2013

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