The following are self assessment documents that relate to VINCYP Standards 7, 8 and 9. They have been created to support professionals and teams that provide services to children and young people with visual impairment by benchmarking services and providing actions to consider in order to improve practices.
The documents are ideal internal quality improvement tools.
Standard 7 – Each local authority has a service for children with VI through which all children have an assessment of need by a QTVI within at most 4 weeks from the date the referral / request for assistance was sent out (if the period of referral spans the school summer holiday, this extends to 8 weeks).
Standard 8 – Each local authority has a service for children with VI through which all children have an assessment of need by a habilitation specialist, qualified to work with children, within 4 weeks of referral.
Standard 9 – There is a clear pathway to access specialist assessments, investigations
and support (MRI, OCT, VEP/ERG, retinal photography, fluoroscein angiography, formal visual field, genetic counselling, LVA, functional vision assessment and community services).