Adult Social Care Data Hub

Collects data on the number of people registered with local authorities as blind or partially sighted, the number of additions to these registers and the number of people on these registers recorded as having an additional disability.

The objectives of the Registered Blind and Partially Sighted collection are to enable:
<ul>
<li>government departments to monitor the impact of social care policy on blind and partially sighted people, ensuring they have access to the right services and are not negatively impacted as a consequence of the introduction of policy</li>
<li>policy makers and commissioners understand the needs of local and national populations</li>
<li>service providers and charities effectively plan the service needs for registered blind and partially sighted people</li>
<li>CASSRs benchmark against peers.</li>
</ul>
 The content is collected once every three years, as a table in the Short and Long Term Support (SALT) return and the annual burden is included in the burden figure for the SALT return.

This standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Data specification