Diabetic 9yr old with broken arm

Upsidedown_Bear

OP - if you haven't seen this you might find it useful.

http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Schools/

Mojisola

PasturesNew wrote: »

and, more importantly, they have a vested interest in keeping the child alive

When I was teaching, I also had a vested interest in keeping the children alive!

Not even being willing to do finger-!!!!! tests to check blood sugar levels actually sounds as if the school doesn't care about the child's health. They'd rather end up calling an ambulance than train someone to test the child's blood sugars?

tom9980

So for £1600 a month take home + pension already doing 60 hour weeks in term time my wife is now expected to go on a course to learn to do bloods and inject insulin? When will she have the time to do this? Now during her holiday I presume? What if she makes a mistake and the child dies? Will she lose her job?

Basically get real won't happen.

Person_one

Mojisola wrote: »

When I was teaching, I also had a vested interest in keeping the children alive!

Not even being willing to do finger-!!!!! tests to check blood sugar levels actually sounds as if the school doesn't care about the child's health. They'd rather end up calling an ambulance than train someone to test the child's blood sugars?

I do agree that it would be sensible to have somebody who can check blood sugars, that's very straightforward with no real possibility of harm. Administering insulin is a very different prospect though.

tomtontom

tom9980 wrote: »

So for £1600 a month take home + pension already doing 60 hour weeks in term time my wife is now expected to go on a course to learn to do bloods and inject insulin? When will she have the time to do this? Now during her holiday I presume? What if she makes a mistake and the child dies? Will she lose her job?

Basically get real won't happen.

And face the possibility of legal action if she messes up

OP gets Carers Allowance and DLA due to her daughter needing a high level of care, she should either provide the care herself or pay someone suitably qualified to do so.

GwylimT

!!!!!! wrote: »

Not when it comes to medicines. That is still the parent/guardian responsibility.

Administering medicines is purely a voluntary act for teachers although some support staff may have it in their contracts

Taken from Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions Statutory guidance for governing bodies of maintained schools and proprietors of academies in England

They cannot however administer any form of injection unless qualified to do so, you cannot just take a two hour course each year to inject insulin as you can for epi-pens.

CH27

Why can't she be taught to inject herself before school restarts?

GwylimT

tomtontom wrote: »

And face the possibility of legal action if she messes up

OP gets Carers Allowance and DLA due to her daughter needing a high level of care, she should either provide the care herself or pay someone suitably qualified to do so.

Ah as she gets DLA then yes that's the perfect solution as OP can use that money put aside for her daughters needs to have attendance at school.

Nicki

Some horrible aggressive posters as usual!

OP have you had the conversation with your daughter's medical team first? My DD has epilepsy and her school also doesn't have a school nurse but the local authority does have a school nursing team. The school nursing team each year send all of my daughters class team (teachers and TAs) on training on how to administer her epilepsy medication and look after her if she has a seizure. As they do for every class in the school with a pupil with this kind of acute medical need if asked to do so by the child's consultant.

For the petty minded of you this training takes place on a normal school day so the staff are getting their normal salary. And thankfully all the teachers I have ever come across don't consider allowing a child with life threatening conditions to become seriously ill whilst at school to be "the parents problem"!!!

She won't be the only insulin dependent child of school age in your local authority even if there hasn't been one at her school before, so there will probably be systems and a protocol in place even if you and your school don't currently know what these are. The SENCO at school may be a good starting point as well as the diabetes nurse at the hospital.

System

CH27 wrote: »

Why can't she be taught to inject herself before school restarts?

Presumably under normal circumstances the child would be ! but with a broken arm injection herself will be impossible.