Latest figures released by the Department for Education show 30 per cent of children who need glasses have not been to an optician, hampering their ability to read and write.
For those children living in disadvantaged areas, they are even less likely to get, or wear, the glasses they need, the department said.
By expanding its ‘Glasses in Classes’ scheme to five new disadvantaged areas in England, under the Opportunity Area programme, up to 9,000 pupils in around 225 schools could be reached, it added.
Under the scheme, eligible children will get one pair of glasses for home and one for school.
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