A government trial that provides two pairs of glasses to school children in an effort to improve reading and writing has been expanded to reach nearly 10,000 more children in 225 schools.
Children identified as needing glasses will receive one pair for home and one for school, helping them concentrate in the classroom and improve their literacy skills. Data previously presented by the government had shown that 30% pupils who needed glasses had not been to an optician, alongside disadvantaged children being less likely to get, or wear, the glasses they needed.
The project was developed by the Centre for Applied Education Research a partnership created by Bradford Opportunity Area to remove health barriers to learning. It will now be available for pupils in Doncaster, Derby, Durham, Norwich and Breckland, and North Yorkshire Coast.