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National Registration Card

Summary: National Registration Card: guidelines for local authorities and their agents, and other information about implementation.

• Registration pack sponsors

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RNIB, in collaboration with the Improving Lives Campaign, has produced a set of resources to assist local authorities in England, or their agents, with issuing the new standardised National Registration Card. These are:

• Standardised registration card
• The difference between certification and registration
• Issuing the card
• Adapting the registration card for local use
• Technical data about the labels
• Using the templates
  Please read this document before you customise and save a label template for use on registration cards in your authority. It contains additional guidance.
• Restocking cards and labels
• Acknowledgements

Blank cards are also available for local authorities or their agents.

Information on the origins of the national registration card, including the research funded by the Persula Foundation into the most suitable design, is in the report Progress in Sight (Word, 260KB).

More information on becoming registered.

An article on the launch of the national registration card was published in New Beacon (now NB magazine) in May 2004.

Please note that this version of the Guidelines has been adapted for online presentation and may differ in minor respects to the print and electronic versions. However, a downloadable version of the original is available:

• The local authority registration card: Guidelines for issuing the card to people who are sight impaired (partially sighted) or severely sight impaired (blind) (Word)

Registration pack sponsors

• Improving Lives Coalition
• Association of Directors of Social Services
• Persula Foundation
• RNIB

Content author: carl.freeman@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 19/12/2008 15:28