Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to schools on supporting children who suffer with migraines.

The government is committed to ensuring pupils with medical conditions are properly supported at school, so that they have full access to education.

In 2014, the government introduced a new duty on schools to support pupils with all medical conditions. The department has published statutory guidance on this, which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3.

The guidance does not specify which medical conditions should be supported in schools. Instead, it focuses on how to meet the needs of each individual child and how their medical condition impacts on school life.