A child who has health needs should have the same opportunities as their peer group, including a broad and balanced curriculum. As far as possible, children with health needs and who are unable to attend school should receive the same range and quality of education as they would have experienced at their home school<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We work closely with medical professionals and the child\u2019s family. We will consider the medical evidence from both clinical consultants and GPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Education Inclusion Service provides more information about accessing education for children with long-term illness<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Devon\u2019s policy on education for children with additional health needs, unable to attend school is currently undergoing a review, to ensure it aligns with statutory guidance and internal processes. If you have any questions regarding this policy or specific queries about Section 19, please contact The Education Wellbeing Team by email at\u00a0educate.educationinclusionmedical-mailbox@devon.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you would like to read the guidance that is given to local authorities, it is available at GOV.UK – Education for children with needs who cannot attend school<\/a> and GOV.UK – supporting pupils with medical conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Devon Hospitals Short Stay School<\/a> provides education for children whose medical needs mean they have a long stay in hospital in Devon. The school teaches on two sites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This school aims to provide continuity of education and works with children, families, medical professionals and schools to do this. Specialist teachers will work with children and young people to create an individual learning plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A child who has health needs should have the same opportunities as their peer group, including a broad and balanced curriculum. As far as possible, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"parent":152,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-965","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 12:34:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70844,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions\/70844"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Education for children in hospital<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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