Asthma friendly schools
Asthma is the most common long-term medical condition in children in the UK, with around 1 in 11 children and young people living with asthma. Outcomes are worse for children and young people living in the most deprived areas.
Improving care and support for children and young people living with asthma is a key priority for the Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Children and Young People Strategic Clinical Network.
As part of this work, our team has created two documents – a guide and policy – to support schools to take all possible steps to care for their pupils.
Asthma Friendly Schools policy
The Network also ran the Asthma Friendly Schools programme, with the aim of improving outcomes for children living with chronic asthma and to enable schools to achieve recognition and meet agreed standards of care.
Watch this video about the project.
The schools involved in the pilot were provided support to:
- Register all children and young people with asthma in the school.
- Develop a management plan for each child.
- Identify a named individual responsible for asthma in each school.
- Develop a policy for inhaler techniques and care of children with asthma.
- Develop a policy for emergency treatment.
- Provide asthma training and education for staff.
- Develop a system for identifying children who are missing school because of their asthma or who are not taking part in sports or other activities due to poor control.
For further information about this work, email afia.ali@nhs.net.