Support for Teachers and Tutors

If you've arrived to our lovely blog through a search because you have a pupil at your school/college/university that has IBD or you are a SENCO and would like more information because you've seen an article in some of the Education press recently... Welcome! Thanks for dropping by.

We have lots of information for tutors and teachers, tailored to the age range you teach:

• Students and IBD: a guide for universities and colleges (PDF)
  Are you a member of staff at a university or college? Find out more about IBD and how you may be able to help students with this condition achieve their full potential. If you are a student you may find it useful to give this information to your tutor or other university staff.

• Children and Young People with IBD: a guide for schools (PDF) This information sheet includes a brief guide to IBD and discusses how teachers and other school staff can best provide the sort of support some children and young people with IBD may need from their school. If you are a young person at school you may find it helpful to make sure your teachers have a copy of this information.

Rylan Clark joins Me and IBD!

You probably know him best as the hilariously entertaining larger-than-life TV personality that graced our screens on The X Factor and Celebrity Big Brother.

When we met him yesterday, however, he was just another person whose life has been touched by Inflammatory Bowel Disease and wants to help raise awareness.

His dear mum, Linda, has had Crohn's Disease for as long as Rylan can remember (all his life!) and he has grown up knowing the pain and difficulties it can bring. He told us that he has always said that if he became famous he wanted to do something for Crohn's and Colitis UK. And, true to his word, he is!

Here he poses with the Crohn's and Colitis UK information sheets - "Children and Young People with IBD - A Guide for Schools".

Rylan is calling for teachers in the UK to download a copy of the guide, as it is estimated that there is likely to be at least one pupil with IBD at every school.

Does your school have a copy?

Did you know that there are a number of laws which may be relevant to a school's responsibility towards its pupils with IBD?

Get clued up - read the guide. And then get your teachers to read it too.

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