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<p>Schools are already required to support children with long-term medical conditions
such as diabetes. Non-statutory guidance, “Managing Medicines in Schools and Early
Years Settings”, is available to schools to help them manage medicines and support
children with medical needs such as diabetes.</p><p>From September 2014, there will
be a new duty, which was 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.</p><p> </p>
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