In Focus: Seeing skills, not sight loss

A Vision Foundation report has found an employment gap of 48% between people living with sight loss and the general population.

It said that employers saw the disability and not the skills of people who were blind or partially sighted.

There were two million people in the UK living with sight loss, of which 424,000 were of working age (18-64) with only one in four in employment from this age group.

The Vision Foundation’s See My Skills report was carried out by the University of Birmingham’s Department of Disability Inclusion and Special Needs.

The charity highlighted the statistics around unemployment and sight loss as well as its plan to improve opportunities.