Reports and Insight

Play for children with complex needs

Sarah Holton shares her favourite play ideas from RNIB’s guide to Working with complex needs.

Supporting parents to find quality childcare

Any parent looking for childcare – either for pre-schoolers or for wraparound care for school-aged children – faces a challenge. Finding the right care is often difficult, and that is quite separate from the issue of cost.

Why register your child's vision impairment?

Registering your child's vision impairment can open the door to a wide range of services and support. In the film below, we follow Nick Radford as he goes through the process of getting certified and registered.

Creating accessible learning materials

Modifying learning materials takes skill and a knowledge of how it will be used. But with practice a straightforward literary text can be downloaded and changed into the required font size in just 90 seconds.

Handwriting: trial or triumph?

Children with vision impairment can face challenges when learning handwriting. This article explores those issues and some practical solutions.

Aiming high for children with low vision

Good quality low vision assessments are vital to help children to make the best use of their vision. It is important, not just for learning, but for their overall wellbeing and independence too.

The economic impact of sight loss and blindness in the UK adult population

Deloitte Access Economics (Australia) was commissioned by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to update the 2009 Access Economics report on the economic impact of sight loss and blindness in the UK adult population, including the direct and indirect costs of sight loss and blindness, and the burden of sight loss and blindness on health.

Vision, accessing information and accessing benefits

This report is a longitudinal research study tracking the process of transition for blind and partially sighted young people from age 14 for five years, identifying the roles of professionals involved and the factors that improve or reduce a young person’s chance of gaining employment.

Tackling unemployment for blind and partially sighted people

Finding Your Feet - Next steps project: Strategic impact evaluation

This final report presents the overall findings of the evaluation of RNIB Finding Your Feet - Next Steps Project. Two programmes are included in the Finding Your Feet programme suite: Striding Out and Steps into Work.