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Amend
the Education and Inspections Act 2006 to establish standards
in |
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schools for the support
of children with specified health conditions; to make |
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provision about the inspection
of such support; and for connected purposes. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Standards
for support of children with specified health conditions |
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(1) |
Section 38 of the Education
and Inspections Act 2006 (general duties of |
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governing body of maintained
school) (c. 40) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
After subsection (9) insert— |
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“(10) |
The governing body must
produce and implement a medical |
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conditions
policy that defines how it plans to support the needs of |
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children
with specified health conditions. |
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(11) |
The medical conditions
policy must include provision about— |
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(a) |
the means by which records
of the specified health conditions of |
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children
at the school are to be recorded and maintained; and |
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(b) |
the preparation of an
individual healthcare plan for each child |
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with
a specified health condition which sets out the needs of |
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that
child arising from that condition. |
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(12) |
The medical conditions
policy must include requirements relating to |
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the
provision of appropriate training for school staff to support
the |
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implementation
of individual healthcare plans. |
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(13) |
In preparing an individual
healthcare plan the governing body must— |
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(a) |
consult the parents of
the child concerned and, where |
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appropriate,
the child about the contents of the plan; and |
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obtain the approval of
the child’s parents for the plan. |
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There shall be a duty
on NHS bodies to co-operate with the governing |
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body
in its preparation and implementation of individual healthcare
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Local
authorities and primary care trusts must co-operate with |
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governing
bodies in fulfilling their functions under this Act. |
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(16) |
The Secretary of State
may by regulations define “specified health |
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conditions”
for the purposes of this section. |
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(17) |
For the purposes of this
section “NHS bodies” has the same meaning as |
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in
the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41).”. |
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Inspection
of standards |
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(1) |
Section 117 of the Education
and Inspections Act 2006 is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
In subsection (2)(a) after
“children” insert “, including the well-being
of |
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children with specified
health conditions within the meaning of the Schools |
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(Health Support) Act 2009”. |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Schools (Health Support) Act 2009. |
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(2) |
This Act comes into force
at the end of the period of two months beginning on |
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the day on which it is
passed. |
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(3) |
This Act extends to England
only. |
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