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Fern Lulham sits in for Peter White.Wheelie bins pose yet another potential obstacle for blind and visually impaired people when navigating pavements. North West Leicester City Council will potentially be able to impose fines to people who leave their wheelie bin on the pavement after bin day. Residents could be liable if there is an accident due to the obstruction. They have recently launched a consultation exercise, that will ask local residents about their thoughts on how to pave their way to a solution. We speak with North West Leicester City Council's head of community services, Paul Sanders on this. Becoming a parent can be both a scary and incredibly exciting experience - especially if you are blind or have a visual impairment. We hear the experiences of some new parents, from when they were expecting to what it is like now they have their little bundles of joy. Are you thinking of having children? We offer some advice from Kate Crofts from Blind Parents UK.Producer: Beth Hemmings

A longitudinal study by the Vision Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research at the University of Birmingham and the Thomas Pocklington Trust, identified key challenges experienced by blind and visually impaired people when they moved on to Further Education. It also found that many did not gain quality employment despite earning qualifications in line with the general population. And is assistive technology making the learning and usage of braille more scarce? We want to hear your views on this - email intouch@bbc.co.uk We get things started by talking to Anna Janickyj, a braille teacher and personal tutor from Sense College Loughborough.

The disability charity Sense are calling on the Government and local communities to prioritise disabled people as the country plans its way out of the Coronavirus restrictions. It's been laid out in their ‘Left out of Life’ report, which reveals the extent to which people feel worried about going out and anxious about measures like social distancing. We speak to the charity’s CEO, Richard Kramer.Echolocation has long been endorsed as a way of helping people who are blind or partially sighted to navigate the world. The University of Durham have been studying the potential of the technique for some years - we'll get an update from the author of the latest report. In the study, Echolocation was taught to people with and without sight, of varying ages and it revealed some rather surprising results…