Education written question – answered at on 14 July 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the number of teaching assistants that administer medicine to children in local authority schools in England.
The Department for Education has made no such estimate.
It is for schools to decide how they deploy their staff. We would expect that where schools in England employ support staff, many will have responsibilities to support pupils with medical conditions, including the administration of medicines.
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