Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department holds any responsibility for ensuring that all schools in England are aware of and compliant with the statutory guidance entitled, Supporting pupils with medical conditions at school.
The Government understands how important it is that children with medical conditions are supported to enjoy a full education. That is why the Government 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 has provided statutory guidance outlining schools’ responsibilities in this area.
Whilst the Department for Communities and Local Government holds no responsibility in the area, the Government continues to work with organisations such as the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance to help raise further awareness of the duty on schools, and have recently promoted the duty through the Department for Education’s social media channels.