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FAQs - Diabetes and Children in School
What is the Canadian Diabetes Association doing to help address the needs of kids with type 1 diabetes while attending school?
In response to the needs of parents seeking help to work with school staff and administration to ensure their children’s medical needs are addressed while attending school, the Association has developed proposed legislation called the Individual medical Care Plan for Students with a Life Threatening Illness.
The Canadian Diabetes Association is calling on Provincial and Territorial governments to enact legislation that would require all publicly funded schools to accommodate and protect students with diabetes, severe allergies, epilepsy or asthma while attending classes or any school activity.
What can I do to encourage our Minister of Education to adopt this proposed Act or something similar in my province?
Contact your elected provincial representative (MLA or MPP) and request he or she send a letter to the Minister of Education to ask for the Association’s proposed legislation or similar legislation to be enacted in your province.
My daughter has type 1 diabetes. What should I know about safeguarding my child’s health while she is at school?
The Canadian Diabetes Association has released its 2008 Standards of Care for Students with Type 1 Diabetes in School to acknowledge and clarify the essential partnerships among parents or caregivers, students and school staff in the care of students with type 1 diabetes in the school system.