School forgot to give medication

That sounds very worrying bit i thought the pump was supposed to administer insulin automatically ,did the CGM not alarm to to alert the staff?

My son’s primary school wont administer ABXs- we have to arrange for somebody to go in and give it.

Inhalers etc are in school and can be administered.

My son is 8 and would definitely be able to remember to ask the staff to give his ABXs.

Insulin would not be forgotten as a staff member would be trained to administer it every day, the child would have an insulin passport and a care plan in school. It’s a critical medication.

You could try ringing the office at lunchtime to ensure the dose has been given for peace of mind? I couldn’t get worked up at the dose being missed or my daughter being asked if they’d reminded the teacher.

The school will not find themselves responsible for missed medication. Complaining will go nowhere.

My son is type 1 diabetic and a lunch dose was missed. No insulin showing in his pump, and a graph of high blood glucose. Panel of governors found this wasn't an issue. The head even claimed insulin isn't needed for pizza.

Arseholes then pleaded at disability discrimination hearing it isn't their role to supervise any insulin doses for a 7 yr old.

Department of education then said school provided 'compelling evidence' that he had taken insulin. But couldn't provide a copy of it.

( Apologies for the rant. )

Wake her up.

Shouldn't have happened but think carefully before you complain. School do not have to give medication. They could refuse and insist you attend to administer it. They are doing you a favour.

My child’s schools has something on the administering medication form we sign to say they will not guarantee the medication will be given but will try their best. Might your child’s school have the same?

for a long standing medication there will be a care plan in place so there really isn’t any comparison between diabetics and a one off course of antibiotics.

You're really comparing the giving of an antibiotic to giving a life saving medication like insulin? Blimey.

They shouldn't have forgotten and they shouldn't have placed any blame on your DD. She is 7 not 17.
I know it happens. My DD quite often had antibiotics to be given 4 times a day and they often forgot but remembered in the early afternoon. They had a TA who dealt with it though.
Are TAs really that rare? Every school we looked at last year had at least 1 TA per year group if not one for each class.
But in my DDs case they didn't blame her for not remembering. Adults have to take the majority of the blame here (I would say all the blame).
Perhaps they need to look at a better system. It can't be that unusual to have children on antibiotics in school. A better system, not one that relies on young children remembering.

My colleagues and I refuse to give any medication at school entirely for this reason. No way am I taking responsibility for it. It was VERY unreasonable of you to expect school to administer it, you could easily have worked the times so it didn’t interfere with school.
How dare you compare it with school staff forgetting insulin. There will be alarms set by the teacher, child and admin staff for this and training will have had to be undertaken.

It's a bit defensive so I can see why the comment to your daughter would get your back up, but my 6yo would absolutely remind the teacher about their medication so equally I can see why the teacher would hope your daughter would remind her.

I've worked in schools, it's so easy to forget.

I'd let this go.

Four times a day course won’t fit in if only given outside school hours.

This. Why have you left it to teachers who have to rely on your daughter reminding them? Just sort it out yourself

The thing with comparing it to diabetes medicine (insulin) is that child will have a care plan.

They will have a designated person to administer daily and very likely they will remember to go to X.

Also with thing like diabetes their are schedule reminders - Eg lunch in a bit.

Random antibiotics won't be on the daily routine for either teacher or child.

Your child forgot she needed them and only has to think for herself.

Not saying it's ideal. But as someone who administers medication in a school I've not forgotten daily meds - have previously forgotten a dose of antibiotics. We don't usually have to administer them in school though as we only do the ones that are 4 times a day and usually they are 3 times.

I have previously put a post it on my desk and the child's to remind us which is foolproof until someone moves them!

All the nurseries / school my kid has been to had a clause in the contract that the school will not be administering medication. If the child strictly needs the medication the parents need to organise the kid to get it (ie keep the kid home, arrange for someone to go to the school at a non disruptive time etc). It wouldn’t occur to me to make the teacher responsible to be honest.
my doctor explained to me that as long as the kid gets the dose per 24 hrs, it’s all good and always spilt the dose in 2 * 12 hour doses vs 3 every 8 hrs or 4 every 6 hrs (we make a point to request it this way as it’s less disruptive)

No big deal don't sweat the small stuff and forget about it. No harm done

Indeed, my son was diagnosed with Diabetes in year 11 he was perfectly capable of dealing. with himself but i still had to have a meeting with the head of pastoral care to discuss everything
He's in college now and we had to have a meeting before he started so theu could make reasonable adjustments if necessary vastly different to antibiotics

But it wasent a diabetes medication it was a,dose of antibiotics, if your child was diabetic they would be in a routine and would know they have to take insulin with meals, and they would likely have a pump and a CGM ,so not really comparable.

When mine were young, your child wasn't allowed in school on antibiotics, I can understand why, reading this.

The difference with regular medication is that its part of routine so it's harder to miss. My 4 year old has medication twice a day and knows when she has due it and reminds us if she has missed it. She's done this since 3!

For regular medication I think they would have a point and that the 7 year old should have reminded them but for short term medication I think it's less reasonable unless they were prewarned to ask about their antibiotics. Our school only gives 4 times a day medication and not 3 times a day so I don't think you are unreasonable to expect them to give them the antibiotics. Ideally my daughter would have one of her medications 3 times a day but this would involve her having it at school (it has to be given 30 minutes before meals rather than at set time points) and we don't want the added stress of managing and persuading them to give a 3 times a day medication and via syringe as they only permit spoons but her doses is 3.5ml and spoons are 2.5ml or 5ml.

How long do they have left on the antibiotics? Unless you have to continue on them next week I think I would let this lie. If they will need them next week, I would engage your daughter in the routine so she can ask for them at school

Can you get a pass if you are a volunteer leader with a youth group?

I've taken my group to PGL with no fewer than 4 kids needing medication at various points of the day, some of which needed to be kept refrigerated. As anyone who has taken a group will know, PGL is hectic and your day and timings are dictated by the PGL staff and the activities. They got their medication when it was possible. The parents were grateful.

(Edit: sorry, that was in reply to @CentrifugalBumblePuppy )

Or right but I assumed if you were being very strict you would wake and administer . We had to do this a number of times.

The teacher should have just admitted they forgot and apologised. I agree turning the responsibility back on your child would have annoyed me too. But then I have a child with SEN who definitely wouldn't remember, maybe some 7 year olds could.

@CentrifugalBumblePuppy I completely agree that parents should spend some time inside a school to see what "teaching" is because if it were only as simple as teaching then it would be a much easier gig