Schools Need Epilepsy Plans Says Charity
August 13, 2013
A BBC investigation has found that many schools have no policy for supporting children with epilepsy.
Research reveals that children are often wrongly sent home in an ambulance if they have a seizure, and can be excluded from activities such as school trips, swimming and games.
Deputy Chief Executive of Epilepsy Action, Simon Wigglesworth, claims that individual healthcare plans – which give full details of a child’s condition – are needed in schools.
He told BBC Radio 5 live’s Shelagh Fogarty: “It would detail the type of information teachers and other support staff would need to know – so the type of seizures they experience, what might trigger them… and what to do if the child has a seizure.”
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