@Sorka
YANBU OP. I don’t see why they can’t care for a child in their care. Ridiculous to threaten you with fines as it’s the school that is effectively denying your daughter an education as they won’t support her need to take medication.
As an aside, and I know this isn’t relevant to your problem, but I really hate medicines that have to be kept in a fridge. I once had eye drops that had to be kept in a fridge and taken every two hours. This was made even more impractical by that fact that I was working in London with a 1.5 hour commute that could easily be 2 hours on a bad day. Nightmare.
Well, it means that somebody in the office has to run their day along the lines of;
Drop everything at 11am, go and find the child, bring them back to the office, give them them medication, wash the spoon (if the parent has actually supplied one), fill in the medication log, return them to class, find out they're doing PE, so need to go somewhere else, hope that nobody has had an asthma attack, broken a wrist, hit their head, cut themselves, phoned, rung the intercom or needed urgent attention in another way, then do the same for the second dose, then hunt down the child and parent in the playground at hometime (or stay behind for the afterschool club) to hand over the must be refrigerated medication find out they've gone home without it, repeat the next day, then find out it's been forgotten and is festering in a bag or has spilled everywhere, etc, etc. Then repeat it for anything up to 20 other kids, all on slightly different schedules (or exactly the same, meaning they need to be fetching kids all over the site at once).
It's not the office staff's responsibility to manage somebody else's health for them when it's a short term thing. It takes too much time if they even have a refrigerator solely dedicated to the storage of medication in a secure area (can't go into a staff fridge with sandwiches).
I do give medication as I've been trained and it's the school policy to do so - I don't have to do the short term things, the policy is actually part of supporting kids with long term medical conditions and health care plans. But frankly, we've got shedloads of money and a purpose built area, along with older children who are more able to manage themselves. I also don't have anything to do with reception, switchboard, manning the gate intercoms, signing for deliveries, taking lunch money, finance or anything else that a primary school secretary has to do. As part of the Covid Risk Assessment, it's also often breaching the conditions, as it involves direct contact with multiple year group bubbles; obviously, if somebody's bleeding profusely or needs an EpiPen/inhaler/ambulance/vomiting all over the place, that gets ignored, but not something like this.
A ten day course of antibiotics is not a disability or longterm health condition, for which we are quite rightly obliged to support.