Mr Jamie Reed – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Jamie Reed on 2014-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department gives to teachers and teaching support staff on supporting children with type one diabetes.

Edward Timpson

Non-statutory guidance, ‘Managing Medicines in Schools and Early Years Settings, is available to schools to help them manage medicines and supporting children with medical needs.

From September 2014, there will be a new duty, (introduced in the Children and Families Act 2014), on governing bodies of maintained schools (and proprietors of academies) to make arrangements to support pupils at school with medical conditions and to have regard to statutory guidance. The guidance (upon which we have consulted publicly) will set out the requirements on schools to support children with medical conditions, which we would expect them to apply to conditions like diabetes.