The Department for Education is holding a consultation on draft statutory guidance relating to the new legal duty to support children with medical conditions in schools in England, due to come into force in September.
This new legal duty - contained in the Children and Families Bill - will require school governing bodies to make arrangements for supporting pupils with medical conditions and, in doing so, to have regard to the related statutory guidance.
The introduction of this statutory duty follows a successful campaign by the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance, a group of 35 charities, which maintains that the current voluntary approach to supporting pupils with medical conditions "does not go far enough".
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