5year old with damaged glasses please help

dawn_rose

Many thanks for all your replys i apreciate you all taking the time to comment. ive taped the broken ones for now to get her through tomorrow and then were off to specsavers tomorrow after school to get it sorted. Ill let you know how i get on.

lazywife

Any opticians will issue a "repair" voucher for children under 16. This will either cover the value of the broken side (they may send them off for repair) or towards a new pair. If you paid extra for the frame, then you may need to pay again if you get a whole new pair.
The repair voucher is paid for by the NHS (a pink version of the yellow version that you would have originally been issued). They will only request a reason for breakage to be put on the form. (eg. broken in playground) to state that they are broken.
HTH
L.xxx

kingfisherblue

Both my sons have worn glasses. The younger one wore them for three years and the first week I had to go back every evening after school. Fortunately he improved, both in looking after his glasses, and in eyesight

My older son has a strong prescription, and his lenses are thinned down. Even when he has lost or damaged his glasses beyond repair, they have always been replaced for free. In fact, the staff of Specsavers know us quite well

You just have to sign a form each time.

Tiddlywinks

I wore glasses when I was little and my mum always kept a spare pair in case of accidents... I know specs are expensive but is it possible to buy a second pair for the future?

Asda does really good deals on adult specs so I would imagine the childrens' range would also have offers.

stiltwalker

Our DD snapped the arm on her glasses - saying that we've been back to Specsavers at least once a week since she got them to have them straightened out!!! By the time they broke they'd discontinued the style and we were told to pick a frame with smaller lenses and the lenses from the broken pair could be cut down to fit - well we'd managed to pick the smallest frame already so they jsut told us to pick a new pair and they sorted it - 3 days later new glasses all ready - 2 days after that we were back having the new frames straightened out!!!

Mrs.W_2

In the years since my daughter was diagnosed to need glasses, Specsavers have repaired my daughters glasses for free three times. And once they replaced them completely free of charge. The NHS covers all this.

dizziblonde

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I wore glasses when I was little and my mum always kept a spare pair in case of accidents... I know specs are expensive but is it possible to buy a second pair for the future?

Asda does really good deals on adult specs so I would imagine the childrens' range would also have offers.

The pairs I got from Asda I'm not impressed with - one pair the arm fell off fairly soon afterwards (not the screw of doom that usually comes out at some point, but the actual part where the hinge mechanism attaches into the arm itself fell apart) and the other part I regularly have to fix with superglue back together again... can't see either pair lasting much longer (especially with a baby going through the face grabbing phase). Always felt they never quite got my contact prescription right either (although torics I know are a pain to fit) - all-in-all I'll be going elsewhere when I next have the cash to get some specs done.

xxlouisexx56

dizziblonde wrote: »

The pairs I got from Asda I'm not impressed with - one pair the arm fell off fairly soon afterwards (not the screw of doom that usually comes out at some point, but the actual part where the hinge mechanism attaches into the arm itself fell apart) and the other part I regularly have to fix with superglue back together again... can't see either pair lasting much longer (especially with a baby going through the face grabbing phase). Always felt they never quite got my contact prescription right either (although torics I know are a pain to fit) - all-in-all I'll be going elsewhere when I next have the cash to get some specs done.

I bought asda glasses for my dd as her first pair they basically just fell apart. They were awful.

I went to a local opticians who claimed for the broken glasses against the cost of a new pair and dd got designer frames for £35!! They were always happy to see dd and never charged for repairs.

Dd has now been discharged from the hospital eye clinic and we now use vision express which have been nothing but fantastic

123louisa

If I remember rightly you will be offered a repair or replacement depending on the damage. Sometimes its just not worth repairing them so would offer a replacement frame AND Lenses.

Don't be fooled into thinking "Oh specsavers are wonderful they replaced my daughters glasses free of charge" They are replacing them without a quibble because the NHS pay for it!

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1096.aspx?CategoryID=68

GlasweJen

dizziblonde wrote: »

The pairs I got from Asda I'm not impressed with - one pair the arm fell off fairly soon afterwards (not the screw of doom that usually comes out at some point, but the actual part where the hinge mechanism attaches into the arm itself fell apart) and the other part I regularly have to fix with superglue back together again... can't see either pair lasting much longer (especially with a baby going through the face grabbing phase). Always felt they never quite got my contact prescription right either (although torics I know are a pain to fit) - all-in-all I'll be going elsewhere when I next have the cash to get some specs done.

If you're going to do this you need to get her current prescription, if Asda did the test they will have it but if the hospit did the test and Asda just made up the glasses you need to ask the hospital for it.

You take the current prescription to the place where you want to get new glasses, legally we must try to repair the glasses and can only claim for parts that are beyond reasonable repair (but some places are stricter than others for this).

If you get your child tested before their recall date you will be invoiced for the test plus a fine from the health board. That is what the form you sign at the test is all about.