Schools join asthma fight
Reporter: LUCY KENDERDINE
Date published: 23 September 2014
SCHOOLS will soon be able to legally hold spare emergency inhalers to keep children safe from potentially fatal asthma attacks.
A change in the law has followed four years of campaigning by Asthma UK.
One in 11 children suffers from asthma and almomst two-thirds of them are estimated to have had an attack at school. Almost nine in 10 sufferers have at some time forgotten to take their inhaler to school - and every year around 20 school-age children die from an attack before it can be treated in hospital.
Previous legislation meant it was illegal for schools to have a spare emergency inhaler. Following a long-fought campaign by Asthma UK, schools will be able to keep spare inhalers from October 1.
The change doesn’t make it mandatory to hold an inhaler at school.
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