Asthma: Schools
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62446 on Schools: Asthma, what steps his Department is taking to increase the (a) purchase of and (b) storage for emergency inhalers in schools.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell
The department does not hold data on emergency inhalers in schools.
Under section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014, maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units must make arrangements for supporting pupils with medical conditions. Schools are responsible for deciding how best to fulfil this duty. They are permitted to buy salbutamol inhalers, without a prescription, for use in emergencies, but there is no requirement to do so.
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