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<p>Schools are already required to support children with long term medical conditions,
and this would include suffers of neurofibromatosis. Non-statutory guidance is available
to schools, “Managing Medicines in Schools and Early Years Settings”, to help them
manage medicines and supporting children with medical needs such as this.</p><p>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 proposed text of the guidance (upon which we have
consulted publicly) is available on GOV.UK so that schools can prepare for implementation
in the autumn term. It sets out the requirements on schools to support children with
medical conditions, which we would expect them to apply to conditions like neurofibromatosis.</p><p>
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