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Whilst the idea of emailing home when a student visits our infirmary or is given medicine is useful - we won't be using it because we can't disable messages home if the studen is older.
For older pupils, we feel that the notifications could breach their privacy rights, and we feel we need a setting to say that "Do not send messages for students older than 'XX' years old..."
I totally agree with this request
At our school we take Pupils from age 2- 18 years. As children grow the requirements and rights to share information change rapidly based upon the age of the child, Which framework the organisation follows as well as other factors such as Gillick/Fraser competence.
For young children the school would normally want to share all first aid and medical information with parents and frequently at the time of the incidence. For example if a child has a head bump, a school or nursery would normally telephone home straight away and record the accident on an accident form which contains all the pertinent details. We also record it on isams.
This is outdated as in many schools parents would simply receive an email and text message at the time of reporting to advise them of the incident.
However as pupils get older this may be less appropriate. For example a sixth form pupil may ask for paracetamol or other care which we would record in medical centre. However, they may not consent to that information being shared with parents. What we need is much more granular control of information sharing, allowing us to choose who receives medical updates on a contact by contact basis either by checking boxes when a notification is sent or via a medical information tick box on the contact record.