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After School Clubs

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Tom1982

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Hello.

Has anyone got any experience with after school clubs? Our daughter is 6 and has expressed an interest in attending one of the after school clubs. We asked the Sendco teacher and her response was “we can’t force people to do the training” does this sound right!? Surely they’d need to put some kind of provision in place so she can attend?

Cheers
Tom
 
Yes that is true unfortunately, they can’t force any one particular person to do the training. Would you want someone looking after your daughter who didn’t really want to do it and maybe hadn’t paid attention properly during the training? However, there must be a way. The Equalities Act 2010 states that all schools and employers must make “reasonable” adjustments to accommodate disabilities (of which diabetes is included). It all comes down to how you interpret the word reasonable, and your interpretation may be different from theirs! Ask to see the school’s inclusion policy. All schools must have one and you must be allowed to see it. If it contains a line somewhere which says something like “all children must be allowed to take part in extracurricular activities regardless of their race, religion, colour, or medical conditions” then by law they have to find a way, it’s discrimination if they don’t and they should get a bit nervous if you start mentioning that word. Could one of the staff who is already trained stay? After all, primary school after school clubs don’t tend to go on for very long so it must be possible. Or maybe the SENCO just doesn‘t want the hassle/expense of getting someone else trained…
Good luck, I’ve had some right arguments in the past with primary school teachers who hadn’t read the care plan, had the cheek to think they knew more about it than I did and would not listen when I tried to explain. Thankfully things got better when she went to secondary school!
 
Are after school clubs classified as part of school and education, or similarly to leisure activities, such as brownies, or swimming clubs?

im just wondering if the classification makes any difference.
 
That’s a good point. I think if it’s being run by school staff then it counts as a school activity. If someone from outside is coming in to run it, then that may be different.
 
I am not a parent but I am a teacher. Obviously I do not know the situation at your school but at mine after school clubs are run by one adult. She is not diabetic trained ( we have 2 children at my school.) The diabetic nurse will not come in a train anyone else and our insurance means we have to have a diabetic trained person with a diabetic child. We could not afford to employ a member of trained staff to stay so unless they did it out of the goodness of their heart we could not have your daughter at our club. Also in my very humble opinion I think there should be 2 members of staff if a diabetic child is there as they could not deal with a situation and supervise the other children. So it is not even a case of simply swapping staff over.

Could you offer to come into school so you are very nearby if you are needed. I am not suggesting that you go to the club as your daughter might not like that.
I hope you manage to sort something out.
 
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