Nursery World - Health & Nutrition

What are the common eye problems that affect children and how can parents and carers help? Meredith Jones Russell reports

Eye conditions can adversely affect children’s learning and behaviour

Good eye health supports education as well as wider well-being, but several studies indicate that young children’s needs are often going unmet. A report by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) found that more than one in ten (around 13 per cent) of children in the UK could have undiagnosed eye conditions that hold back their development.

Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the EEF, calls eye testing a ‘no-brainer’. He says, ‘Making sure all young children with possible eyesight problems are identified, and those that are given glasses or other treatments use them, is a cheap way of removing this unnecessary barrier to learning.’

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