Chamber and committees

The Royal Blind School receives annual grant funding from the Scottish Government, which is used to support the direct delivery of specialist education and care provision for children and young people with complex additional support needs, including those with visual impairment. The key recurring grant objectives set out for the school in their annual grant letters since 2019-20 are:

• Provide high quality education and / or care to the children and young people who attend the Royal Blind School and Sight Scotland education outreach services.
• Continue to develop the delivery of peripatetic support to local authorities, children and young people with visual impairment.
• Identify collaboratively, the development objectives with all pupils, staff and stakeholders.
• Evidence and maintain the Royal Blind School’s leading position and its value to the provision and enhancement of good practice in education, learning and care for school age children with Visual Impairment and particularly those with complex additional support needs.
• Ensure the ongoing viability of the school, continue to be committed to attracting and developing alternative sources of income through commercial activity and partnership working.
• Improve and develop partnership opportunities with all stakeholders of the Royal Blind School.
• In addition to the core objectives set out above, two further objectives were set within specific years. These were not recurring objectives and were met within the years set.
• Throughout 2020-21 implement the actions/activities in the School Improvement Plan to ensure children and young people who attend the Royal Blind School receive high quality education and care.
• To continue to develop and operate the Learning Hub in order to provide support to local authorities, children and young people with visual impairment and their families and other agencies with visual impairment across Scotland; and provide by 31 March 2020 an evaluation of progress in the 2019-20 outcomes report.