It's the new school year and by now your child's school should have a copy of their updated Diabetes Management Plan.
Adele Connor, Diabetes in Schools Program Clinical Nurse Specialist at Perth Children’s Hospital, said a student's diabetes management plan was an essential document that guided how schools could support students with type 1 diabetes to learn and participate fully at school.
She said the training available to schools was delivered around individial needs of the child and was designed to ease the strain on families by helping to ensure that principals, teachers, and school staff had the support, training, and tools they needed to support students with type 1 diabetes at school.
“Principals are able to make a request for skills-based training for any student with type 1 diabetes who needs support at school, via the Diabetes in Schools website,” she said.
Diabetes Management Plans are available to download from: Diabetes management and action plans - Diabetes WA
Once complete, please email it to PCHDiabetesManagementPlans@health.wa.gov.au for signing by your clinical team.
For more information on the Diabetes in Schools program visit www.diabetesinschools.com.au
We are currently in the process of creating a new Web based Diabetes Management Plan and this will be available towards the end of February this year, links to follow.
First published Monday 29 January 2024.