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It may not come as a surprise to you that, for many years, unemployment rates amongst blind and visually impaired people have been consistently high. This is despite government efforts to combat this. Well, the recent release of two reports has put disability employment back on the agenda.
And the sight loss charity The Vision Foundation has recently published their See My Skills report. It gives a detailed but rather bleak insight into the employment landscape for blind and visually impaired people. We speak to two people with direct experience of seeking work, the charity's Chief Executive Olivia Curno and previous Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and now Vice Chair of The Vision Foundation, Lord David Blunkett about the report and what their charity is doing to help the situation.
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It may not come as a surprise to you that, for many years, unemployment rates amongst blind and visually impaired people have been consistently high. This is despite government efforts to combat this. Well, the recent release of two reports has put disability employment back on the agenda.
And the sight loss charity The Vision Foundation has recently published their See My Skills report. It gives a detailed but rather bleak insight into the employment landscape for blind and visually impaired people. We speak to two people with direct experience of seeking work, the charity's Chief Executive Olivia Curno and previous Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and now Vice Chair of The Vision Foundation, Lord David Blunkett about the report and what their charity is doing to help the situation.

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