Borderline pass mark, and has medical condition

[Amber]

Gosh, Amber's schools sound brilliant (in this regard at least )

My influence, of course.

[Rob Clark]

Goes without saying, Amber

Were these schools you bought earlier?

[Clarabelle]

My neighbours DS attends a local SN college, he is 16. His mum encountered terrible problems in his previous, small, SN school due to his diabetes. Staff had no previous experience, onus was on his mum to organise staff training with specialist nurse and he was also unable to attend a residential trip on a boat moored off-shore as the school felt it would be unsafe if he required medical treatment. When he recently moved to the college, again his mum had to attend daily to administer his insulin & deal with staff training issues. It seems that the size of school and educational experience of staff is no barrier to poorly implemented practice around medical issues.

[Rob Clark]

he was also unable to attend a residential trip on a boat moored off-shore as the school felt it would be unsafe if he required medical treatment

That is illegal. The school has to make the necessary arrangements or cancel the whole trip.

ETA Have removed the second half of my post as I hadn't appreciated that the DC Clarabelle was talking about is SN. Apologies

[Amber]

he was also unable to attend a residential trip on a boat moored off-shore as the school felt it would be unsafe if he required medical treatment

That is illegal. The school has to make the necessary arrangements or cancel the whole trip..

And while I can already hear the applause for what is clearly A Good Thing,, think too of the implications of that one. A friend who is a Head of Science at a GS has had to cancel 2 school trips, one because the parents of a child with a nut allergy wanted a factory to guarantee that nothing would induce an allergy in their child, and another because a severely disabled child in a wheelchair could not gain access to a remote outdoor location as part of a field trip and the parents were not prepared to accept an alternative for that one afternoon (out of 5 days). While sympathies of course lie with the children, it is also very hard sometimes for schools to cater to every last possibility.

[Reading Mum]

In DD's school they have a similar wall with a folder per child with big photos and all the medical info. There are also practice epipens etc. When a child developed severe epilepsy out of the blue they installed red emergency pull cords in every room and even the tennis courts and trained all the kids in that year group to recognise the warning signs and pull the cord.

[ginx]

Clarabelle,

I have a diabetic dd hopefully going to gs next year. There are no other diabetic girls there! I hope I have a better experience than your friend. Potential for problems is huge - yet it doesn't have to be. I hope my dd is ok.

Hope your friend and dc are ok now.

[Browser]

he was also unable to attend a residential trip on a boat moored off-shore as the school felt it would be unsafe if he required medical treatment

That is illegal. The school has to make the necessary arrangements or cancel the whole trip..

And while I can already hear the applause for what is clearly A Good Thing,, think too of the implications of that one. A friend who is a Head of Science at a GS has had to cancel 2 school trips, one because the parents of a child with a nut allergy wanted a factory to guarantee that nothing would induce an allergy in their child, and another because a severely disabled child in a wheelchair could not gain access to a remote outdoor location as part of a field trip and the parents were not prepared to accept an alternative for that one afternoon (out of 5 days). While sympathies of course lie with the children, it is also very hard sometimes for schools to cater to every last possibility.

I kind of agree with Amber here. Especially if the school attempted to make arrangements.
Also, in secondary schools , do parents have the option of going along?
So for the factory trip at least, a parent could go long and make sure that everything is ok.

This is my first time high school experience and I was just unsure as to what to do, and I accept I ignorantly made abit of a sweeping statement.
Dc is currently in a small school, everybody knows each other, and they are very careful around him.

The sad part for the child is that they have to accept that this is what was dealt to them and sometimes thats hard for them to accept , they will miss out on certain things , but essentially I think it is character building for them.