{"id":326,"date":"2024-10-17T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/?p=326"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:21:33","slug":"parliamentary-engagement-appg-report-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/2024\/10\/17\/parliamentary-engagement-appg-report-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Engagement &#8211; APPG Report Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the 14th of October\u00a0<strong>Paula Holland\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Calum Carson\u00a0<\/strong>attended the launch event at the Houses of Parliament of a report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Eye Health and Visual Impairment\u2019s entitled &#8220;<em>Changing Attitudes, Changing Lives &#8211; Employer Attitudes and the Employment of Blind and Partially Sighted People.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>The event was attended by a varied audience of contributors to the report, and speakers including Jamie Ward (Head of Talent &amp; Learning at Channel 4) and the Minister for Employment Alison McGovern spoke about the need for the employment landscape to be accessible for blind and visually impaired workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The report sets out 22 recommendations for the UK government\u00a0 and employers to implement in order to break down barriers for blind and partially sighted people to better access the labour market, and improve their everyday working life within their current roles. These recommendations were based on the testimony received during evidence sessions earlier this year from employers, disability organisations and academic researchers, including\u00a0<strong>Paula\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Calum\u00a0<\/strong>who presented evidence to APPG members in March on the working experiences of blind and visually impaired people derived from the findings of the <strong>Inclusive Remote and Hybrid Working Study.\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eyehealthviappg.org.uk\/report\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>The report can be read in full here (large print and accessible versions are also available at the bottom of the page).<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the 14th of October\u00a0Paula Holland\u00a0and\u00a0Calum Carson\u00a0attended the launch event at the Houses of Parliament of a report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eye Health and Visual Impairment\u2019s entitled &#8220;Changing Attitudes, Changing Lives &#8211; Employer Attitudes and the Employment of Blind and Partially Sighted People.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0The event was attended by a varied audience of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-working\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}