Considerable change is occurring in arrangements for training rehabilitation workers. Amid signs that employers are finding ad hoc localised and more diverse ways of preparing staff, there is also growing concern to re-focus and rebuild systems of training that will be robust and serve the field better into the next century. The Visual Handicap Group has prepared a Consultative Report which sets the scene for a period of reform which could lead to a larger and more highly trained workforce able to cope with a work setting that is undergoing rapid change.
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A New Deal for Blind and Partially Sighted People: joint action on resource centres to develop Care in the Community, 1993, Report of Working Party set up by the Visual Handicap Group (Chairman, Lord Jenkin), prepared by Graham Lomas, published by RNIB. NHS and Community Care Act 1990.
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Perspective on Training: professional support to meet basic community needs among blind and partially sighted people, 1995, to be published by RNIB for the Visual Handicap Group. (Available for at £9.95 from RNIB Customer Services Distribution, Peterborough, from where braille and tape copies may also be obtained.)
