Question follow-through · 126946
Pupils: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has considered expanding statutory guidance for schools on supporting children and young people with medical conditions to all school types.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 21 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
13 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has considered expanding statutory guidance for schools on supporting children and young people with medical conditions to all school types.
15 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Apr 2026
Answer published
The statutory guidance, ‘Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions’, is issued under section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014. This requires local authority-maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units to make arrangements for...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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