Question follow-through · 17305
Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the fee paid to deliver the Special Schools Eye Care Service is not reduced so that (a) children with Special Educational Needs can receive free eye care in sch
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the fee paid to deliver the Special Schools Eye Care Service is not reduced so that (a) children with Special Educational Needs can receive free eye care in sch
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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10 Dec 2024
Answer published
To address the access challenges that children and young people with learning disabilities or autism, or both, face in accessing high street sight testing services, regulations were laid on 28 November to support the roll out of sight testing in special e...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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