Fire Alarms

[AngelaUK]

we had an incident at school during a fire alarm.

They have a no bags policy and took all the kids out onto the field, leaving my daughter's kit in the school cupboard.
My daughter went hypo - they had nothing with them to treat it.

We have now got a policy in place where a designated member of staff must have glucose tablets in her pocket at all times.

[essobe]

this was actually a good resolution because other kids with the same condition may also suffer from such incident. the school health members should actually carry a kit with them that will contain some important remedies/medications for emergency cases like that at all times so that when emergencies like these happen they come prepared, after all they are the health team. lucky fr your child she did not suffer anything worst but i do hope that she is okay now and that this will not happen again.

[AngelaUK]

yeah it would be beneficial for a health kit to go out on faire drills etc.

We don't have any health members at school - only teaching and admin staff. Here in the UK we don't have nurses in our schools.

My kids class teachers are press ganged volunteers who help my kids with their diabetes. In  our school the Head Teacher's policy is the child's teacher must volunteer. In some UK schools the head asks for someone, anyone in the school, to please volunteer and  in many cases no one does so the parent has to go into school to help their child.