Surrey Association for Visual Impairment. Making a visible difference in Surrey.
Progress In Sight
Those of us who are involved in planning, managing, delivering or commissioning social services are required to carry out a range of tasks to foster independence among vulnerable people. In doing this, we are required to measure aspects of our performance against an ever-increasing number of national standards except in visual impairment, where authorities have so far had no authoritative benchmarks with which to evaluate their services.
During 2002, The Department of Health had published a number of strategic documents, which stress the importance of involving service users in the commissioning and delivery of quality
health and social care. During the same period around one hundred national and local voluntary organisations collected evidence about inconsistencies in the quality of services for visually impaired people in the UK.
It is against this background that the Association of Directors of Social Services has drawn up these service user-led national standards of social care for visually impaired adults.
The standards are aimed primarily at local authority social services Departments in England, but all organisations that are concerned with the health and social care of visually impaired people in the public, private and voluntary sectors as well as visually impaired people themselves, and their carers will find them useful too.
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