RNIB Legal Rights Service Working in Partnership with Our Sight Loss Sector Partners

In the next feature of our new series of interviews looking at how the RNIB is working in partnership with charities and organisations across the sight loss sector to make a more inclusive and accessible society for blind and partially sighted people, Connect Radio’s Toby Davey checks in with members of the Strategic Engagement Lead - Third Sector Team here at the RNIB this time to focus on the work of the Legal Rights Service.

Toby was joined by Andrea Glover - RNIB Strategic Engagement manager and Anita Marshall - RNIB Solicitor/Specialist Lead, Legal Rights Service to find out how the RNIB’s Legal Rights Service provides advice and support to both the RNIB and external partners.

Andrea began by explaining to Toby how the Legal Rights Service fits within all the strategic partnership working at the RNIB. 

Anita then outlined some of the work that the Legal Rights service does such as dealing with complex casework covering three areas of the law: welfare benefits, community care and the equality act in relationship to goods, services, and employment.  The work within the RNIB providing a support helpline service to the RNIB Advice Team, training RNIB Sight Loss Advisors and providing on behalf of the RNIB legal factsheets and toolkits available from the RNIB website.

Anita also mentioned about the external training the Legal Rights Service has been delivering recently to the organisation and how a recent training session about the Equality Act in relation to employment had driven more case work to the service. 

Andrea summed up by explaining how the work of the Legal Rights Service feeds back into the RNIB campaigning, collaboration, and other cross sector partnership work. 

To contact the Legal Rights Service do email legalrights.mailbox@rnib.org.uk or visit the RNIB website via the following link for factsheets and toolkits.

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