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Parents have the prime responsibility for ensuring a child’s health and for deciding whether they are fit to attend school

Parents have the prime responsibility for ensuring a child’s health and for deciding whether they are fit to attend school

A teacher has asked whether she could face legal or disciplinary action if a pupil were injured while she was out of the classroom taking a sick child to the school office

For more than a century, the standard of care expected of a teacher or member of support staff has been that of a “prudent parent”, although recent attempts have been made to substitute this with the “reasonable teacher”