Medication
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ASPIRE - LEARN - FLOURISH
The Aspire Learning Federation is made up of two schools - Elm Park Primary School and R J Mitchell Primary School in the London Borough of Havering.
Occasionally you may wish for school to administer medicine to your child. Please bear in mind that there is no legal duty which requires school staff to administer medication; this is a voluntary role. Medicines should only be taken in school when essential. Where clinically possible, medicines should be prescribed in dose frequencies which enable them to be taken outside school hours. Parents should keep children at home if they are acutely unwell.
Parents will be asked to fill in a consent form and discuss the medicine with a member of the school office team.
Please see the consent form. Medicine must be handed to a member of the office team on the first day and may be handed in to the office on subsequent days.
Children should not bring to school any self-administered medicines or remedies, such as Olbas Oil or lip salve. Children can be overly generous, sharing remedies (and germs!) inappropriately with other children.
Recurring/Long Term Medical Conditions
Parents will be asked if their child has any health conditions or issues on the admission booklet.
All parents who indicate on the enrolment form, or otherwise inform the school that their child has a medical need, are offered an appointment with the school’s Office Manager and/or SENCO at the start of the school year and annually thereafter.
The school will complete a healthcare plan to record important details about individual children’s medical needs at school, their triggers, signs, symptoms, medication and other treatments. Where a child has a special education need the healthcare plan will be linked to the Education, Health and Care Plan where they have one.
An individual healthcare plan (IHCP) is completed with the parents/carers of all pupils with long term medical needs.
This is done:
At enrolment
At the start of each school year
When a diagnosis is first communicated to the school
When there is a change in the needs of the pupil
Any parent/carer can request a meeting with the Office Manager/SENCO at any time in the school year if they are concerned about their child’s health. Parents understand that if their child’s medication changes or ceases they should inform the school immediately.
Please see guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings via the link below from Public Health England
www.publichealth.hscni.net/sites/default/files/Guidance_on_infection_control_in%20schools_poster.pdf