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Children who cannot attend school because of illness or medical needs still have a right to a good education, and local authorities have a duty to provide it. Getting that provision right — timely, high-quality, and joined up with health — is complex and genuinely matters.
We support the education of children with health and medical needs, so they keep learning and stay connected while they are unwell.
What Is Our Hospital and Medical Needs Support?
It is support around the education of children with health and medical needs who cannot attend mainstream school, including hospital education and medical needs provision. We help local authorities, provisions, and schools design, deliver, and quality-assure provision that meets the statutory duty and genuinely serves unwell children.
The focus is on timely, high-quality education that keeps children learning and connected, and eases their return.
Who Is Our Hospital and Medical Needs Support For?
It is for local authorities with the statutory duty for children unable to attend through illness, hospital and medical needs provisions and PRUs, and schools supporting pupils with significant health needs. It suits everyone responsible for keeping unwell children learning.
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What Does Our Hospital and Medical Needs Support Include?
- Support to meet the statutory duty for unwell children
- Design of medical needs and hospital education provision
- Quality assurance of existing provision
- Joined-up working with health services
- Support for children with anxiety and mental-health-related absence
- Reintegration planning as children recover
- A clear focus on continuity and connection
How Does Our Hospital and Medical Needs Support Help Your School, Academy, Trust, or Setting?
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Meet the statutory duty
LAs must provide education for children who cannot attend through illness. We help you meet that duty well, not just technically.
2
Provide timely education
Delay costs unwell children dearly. We help you get provision in place quickly, so learning does not stop when illness starts.
3
Keep children connected
Isolation compounds illness. We help you keep children connected to learning and, where possible, to their school and peers.
4
Join up with health
Medical needs provision only works alongside health. We help you build the joined-up working that unwell children need.
5
Support anxiety-related absence
Much medical needs work now involves mental health. We help you support children with anxiety and emotionally based absence.
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Quality-assure provision
Provision for unwell children must be genuinely good. We help you check and strengthen its quality.
7
Ease the return
Coming back after illness is hard. We help you plan reintegration that supports recovery rather than rushing it.
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How Our Hospital and Medical Needs Support Works
- 1We talk through the children and provision involved.
- 2We help you design or quality-assure the provision.
- 3We support joined-up working with health services.
- 4We build in reintegration as children recover.
- 5We leave you with provision that keeps children learning.
What You Get at the End
- Provision that meets the statutory duty well
- Timely, high-quality education for unwell children
- Joined-up working with health
- Reintegration planned around recovery
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Key Features of Our Service
Duty-focused
We help LAs and schools meet their duty to unwell children properly.
Health-joined
We help you build provision that works alongside health services.
Continuity-minded
We keep children learning and connected while they are unwell.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only in education and understand the duty to children who cannot attend through illness and how much timely, connected education matters to them. Our support helps you design and quality-assure hospital and medical needs provision that keeps unwell children learning — joined up with health and focused on their recovery and return.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to us about the children and provision involved.
- We help you design or strengthen medical needs education.
- Contact us today to support unwell children’s education.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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