The report, published last week by charity Diabetes UK, said that someschools are refusing to give children with diabetes access to snacksduring class, excluding them from school trips and keeping them out oflessons unnecessarily.
A postal survey of all English primary schools found that 59 per cent donot have a policy advising staff how to give medication, while 41 percent lack a policy advising staff how to supervise it. In 70 per cent ofschools where some children have diabetes, parents have to go intoschool to give their child insulin.
The most common barriers to providing support at school were found to beconcerns over legal liability and a lack of training.
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