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Schools and Community Training Platform

What is it?

These courses are designed to support school staff and anyone looking after a child living with Type 1 diabetes to better understand their care needs. 

This is awareness training and is not designed to replace individualised care given by a child's or young person's hospital team. 

DigiBete have collaboratively developed this platform and it is brought to you by JDRF UK, Diabetes UK, The National CYP Diabetes Network and the Leeds Children's hospital.

Who is this platform for?

This platform is for anyone who looks after a child or young person in the UK with Type 1 diabetes. This platform will support you to gain a better understanding of managing Type 1 diabetes in school.


Primary school
primary school children

“Because I’d say diabetes, you are normal but you’re not, it is important to me to fit in, with everybody, but like I am my own person and they have to accept who I am, and if they’re not they’re not the right people.”

Secondary school children

“They said, ‘Get off your phone,’ and I was like, ‘Okay, just two minutes, let me just test my bloods,’ and then he went off, the teacher, and then I get detention for being on my phone, it just doesn’t make sense, it was infuriating”

children playing sport

“We were doing something in PE and I felt really unwell, my bloods had gone low and I asked if I could go to the school nurse, I needed to check my bloods and to sort that out and he said that I couldn’t until the lesson was done, which was another 15 minutes away”

  • Primary School

    Primary School

    Are you a teacher, teaching assistant or a member of the school staff team in Primary School? This learning module provides primary school teachers and staff with essential knowledge about Type 1 diabetes.

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  • Secondary School

    Secondary School

    Are you a teacher, teaching assistant or a member of the school staff team in Secondary School? This learning module provides secondary school teachers and staff with essential knowledge about Type 1 diabetes.

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Brought to you by:

Digibete National Children & Young People's Diabetes Network JDRF Diabetes UK