School did not ask for permission to give child injection

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Child is 14 years. He has a plaster on his arm. He casually says he had an injection at school. I told him I don't remember signing permission slip. He says "oh the teacher said we don't need parental consent for this".

I have checked the slip and it's for immunisation for:
Tetanus, Diphtheria, Polio and Men C.

I don't know how to feel. Would they not ask for permission from parents?

Am I the only one thinking that OPs DS has had that form for a little while, that there may be, have been, more to it and it would have had all the usual info on it re medical info, Gillick competency, signature request, etc?

OP - when you call the school on Monday best check what they really did do before you go off like Rambo!

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Stop doing this! Start a new thread! Read the bloody dates when you do a Search!

I would make sure you didn't sign and that your ds didn't sign and then sue their asses off

For what? There wasn't any damage. Good luck with that in court. I was looking at a judgment just this week where someone sued someone and was awarded £1 in damages. There was a technical breach, but no damage.

It's always good that people are so willing to sue the taxpayer for nothing.

Oh why do I fall for these Zombie threads - because I don't look at the dates, I know, but there's a great big warning that comes up when you try to post on one!

They should have got your consent, however if your child was deemed able to understand and give their consent it may not be necessary.

It’s nothing to do with the school, they don’t even send out the slips anymore it’s the immunisation team that send an online link which may be forwarded to you from the school and they 100% need your permission I don’t know where people are getting otherwise info. On immunisation day hours get spent calling the parents who have done it.

This is a zombie thread.
However, it is to do with school. Some teams are still using some paper consents that need giving out and it is the school who sends the online link to parents.
They do not need parental permission if the child is Gillick competent and a form has not been returned.

At 14 they're most likely Gillick competent thus can consent to own medical treatment.

Even if they weren't, thought I might be a bit annoyed my permission wasn't asked, I wouldnt be a dick and sue or kick off or anything like that as I wouldve let my child have their immunisation anyway as its a sensible thing to do for their welfare. I'd only make a complaint of they had an adverse reaction to it which I had anticipated due to allergy etc and for whatever reason my child didn't know about and I wouldve been able to tell the school about had they asked

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I would make sure you didn't sign and that your ds didn't sign and then sue their asses off

For what? There wasn't any damage. Good luck with that in court. I was looking at a judgment just this week where someone sued someone and was awarded £1 in damages. There was a technical breach, but no damage.

It's always good that people are so willing to sue the taxpayer for nothing.

This. You need to establish damages. Nothing untoward appears to have happened. Sue and you risk 'winning' and being lumbered with all of the costs anyway. You may not even win if child is indeed Gillick competent and then also would end up with the costs.

They don't have the Men C for school leavers, it's the Men ACWY and has been for a number of years. Recheck the form.

Yes they forward the link but the responses go the imms team, the school is a conduit.

I so wish the HPV vaccine was around when I was young. Would have saved a lot of stress and treatment.

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