SeeAbility to extend Special Schools Eye Care Service from September 2025

Integrated care boards in London have extended the learning disability charity’s contracts to cover between 25 and 30 more schools from the next academic year

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Lucy Miller

19 June 2025

SeeAbility will extend its Special School Eye Care Service provision to between 25 and 30 more schools in London from September 2025.

Integrated care boards in London have extended the learning disability charity’s existing contracts ahead of the coming academic year.

The expansion means that the number of London schools in which SeeAbility is contracted to provide eye examinations will almost double.

The charity is now undergoing a recruitment drive in order to ensure workforce capacity ahead of the service expansion.

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SeeAbility is looking for term-time optometrists and full-time dispensing opticians to come onboard to provide eye care to children in special school settings across the capital.

The charity will provide full training, and optometrists and dispensing opticians will be teamed up with a clinical mentor.

Dispensing opticians will begin working with SeeAbility in the summer, and will help the charity plan and administrate its upcoming clinics.

Optometrists will begin their special school clinics from September, with the expectation that they will work between one and five days per week.

SeeAbility emphasised that optometrists and dispensing opticians working in special schools are part of the wider education and health care team that exists around the child.

More information about the Special Schools Eye Care Service can be found on SeeAbility’s website or by contacting the charity’s clinical lead, Malvi Patel, via email.