PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs (21 February 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2022 to Question 119402, on Special Educational Needs: Ophthalmic Services, how many day special schools are part of the Proof-of-Concept programme to provide sight tests and dispensing of glasses on school premises; and how many children attending day special schools have been seen under that programme to date.

Asked by:
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)

There are currently 93 day special schools participating in the Proof-of-Concept programme. To date, claims submitted by contractors indicate that 2,695 children have received a sight test, of which 1,152 required and received glasses. The programme will be evaluated later this year.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
1 March 2022