Written question asked by Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour) on Monday, 30 October 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 1 November 2017. It was answered by Robert Goodwill (Conservative) on Tuesday, 7 November 2017 on behalf of the Department for Education.
Pupils: Health
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's guidance, entitled Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions, published in December 2015, if she will make an assessment of the proportion of schools with published policies for supporting pupils with medical conditions.
- Answer
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The government knows how important it is that all children with medical conditions are supported to enjoy a full education. That is why we introduced the duty, under section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014, to require governing bodies to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions and have provided statutory guidance outlining schools’ responsibilities in this area.
In complying with this duty, governing bodies should ensure that their school develops a policy for supporting pupils with medical conditions that is reviewed regularly and is readily accessible to parents and school staff.
A school’s ability to support a child for with a medical condition will depend to an appreciable extent on collaborative working between school staff, parents and pupils, and other agencies such as local councils and healthcare professionals.
The school’s policy should therefore identify collaborative working arrangements between all those involved, to help ensure that the needs of pupils with medical conditions are met effectively.
Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework requires inspectors, in making judgements, to pay particular attention to the outcomes of a range of groups of pupils, including those with medical needs. We also continue to work with organisations such as the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance to help raise further awareness of the duty, and have recently promoted the duty through the department’s social media channels.
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- 2017-19
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- Children Health Pupils
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