In order to administer medication to children in schools, you need formal training from a practitioner.

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 40m

Learning outcomes

  • Learn the legal responsibilities for school governors to teaching staff and parents
  • Learn how to look after children who self medicate, how to handle an emergency situation and covertly administer medication
  • Learn how to read pharmacist's labels, how to deliver, store and dispose of medication

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 4 sections

  1. 1
    The Law and School Policy
  2. 2
    Medication
  3. 3
    Handling and Administrating Medication
  4. 4
    Managing Medical Needs

About this course

This training is specifically targeted at adults working within the education sector. It provides an overview of how to care for a child as well as their medical needs. As well as this, the legal responsibility that each adult has for a child. Efficiently trained staff will reduce the risk of harm to both students and staff.

By following the guidelines set by The Department for Education & Skills and The Department of Health, we ensure participants are given the best training. This course will provide a sound knowledge of medication use and touch upon specialist treatments for specific illnesses in children.

It’s a great introduction to administering medication in schools or a handy refresher – However, in order to administer medication to children in schools you need formal training from an NHS practitioner, this course is not a substitute for this training.

The importance of Medication Awareness Training for Schools

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Available in 40 languages

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Our most popular languages

Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
Lithuanian

Medication Awareness Training certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Medication Awareness Training course for schools concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Medication Awareness in Education Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

317 real user reviews

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Thoroughly enjoyed the course

A very useful and enjoyable course

A good overview

Good basic information, regarding medication and awareness.

Informative

This user gave this course a rating of 4/5 stars

Easy and clear

I found the course easy to follow, informative and enjoyable.

Good Course

Informative and helpful information to further my own knowledge on administering medication at school.

Very comprehensive

Lots of information to be aware off and I was rather intimidated at first but the course made everything very clear. Looking forward to the practical course.

Very dull

This user gave this course a rating of 1/5 stars

Very informative

Very good basic course . I learnt things I didn't know before. Especially about diabetes. I would recommend all school staff take this course

Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

Health and Safety Regulations that are related to The Administration of Medication in Education;

Human Medicines Regulations

The Human Medicines Regulations set out a comprehensive regime for the authorisation of products; for the manufacture, import, distribution, sale and supply of those products; for their labelling and advertising; and for pharmacovigilance.

Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions (2015)

The Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions (2015) gives guidelines on how to ask for parental agreement on administering medicine, keeping records of a child’s medicine and how the school and the parent can both work together for the better of the child.

“Pupils at school with medical conditions should be properly supported so that they have full access to education, including school trips and physical education.”

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