Read the Guidance for Professional Practice on examining younger children
Read the Guidance for Professional Practice.
Find out more about getting a higher qualification in Paediatric eye care.
Read our ethical scenarios and decide what you would do in these situations.
New research shows that only 30% of kids always wear sunglasses on sunny days and more than a third of parents believe a hat or cap offers the same protection as sunglasses.
Chris Steele FCOptom, new Clinical Editor of Acuity, on change as a positive factor
Clinical files: Is a 6-year-old child too young for contact lenses?
The College's position on the use of Chloramphenicol POM in paediatric populations.
Professor Ed Mallen MCOptom discusses the findings from the part College-funded Northern Ireland Childhood Errors of Refraction (NICER) Study and how it can help you talk to children at risk of myopia and their parents.
In this recorded lecture, Professor Bruce Evans FCOptom highlights the role of practitioners in providing eye care for children and aims to improve members' confidence in managing these cases whilst stressing the need for practitioners to be aware of their limitations.
This online course covers the paediatric clinic portion of the pre-reg Hospital Eye Service experience.
Eye health issues that are making the news - Spring 2023.
This online CPD course follows an optometrist while they examine four children of differing ages being managed in practice for a variety of binocular vision anomalies.
The Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning has written to NHS England urging them to commission a School Eye Care Service for children with special needs.
Podcast: College clinical adviser Daniel Hardiman-McCartney FCOptom MBE talks to optometrist Bhavin Shah MCOptom MBABO FBCLA about managing patients with dyslexia.
Clinical Files: Is it acceptable to turn away a child for a sight test if you don't feel you have the experience or right equipment?
The clinical figures that count - Winter 2023
Is increased screen time causing visual and eye health problems in children? Helen Gilbert reports.
Clinical Files: What can I do to make a sight test as accessible as I can to an autistic child?
A message from Professor Leon Davies FCOptom, College President.