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Parents/Carers

NHS worried about your child, links to common illness pages providing advice and reassurance of what to do and or where to go when your child is ill. Also includes links to pages about whether your child can go to school or advice on keeping your child healthy

Epilepsy Awareness Session for Schools (Oct 2024)

The Child Health and Wellbeing Network hosted an online interactive epilepsy awareness raising session for education professionals working with Young People in the North East and North Cumbria on 26th September 2024

The hour-long session was delivered by members of the Epilepsy Leadership Group and gives an overview of the NHSE CYPT programme and the National Epilepsy Bundle and an outline of the regional work ongoing across the NENC to improve the offer to CYP with epilepsy and their families.

Clinicians gave an overview of what paediatric epilepsy is and its impact on the day-to-day life of a person with epilepsy and described how it might affect their education, how epilepsy services are delivered in the NENC and general advice about how to support someone with epilepsy effectively. The session provided participants with an awareness of epilepsy, its impact and some top tips and signposting to credible national resources to help support Young People with epilepsy.

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a condition that affects the brain and causes seizures. Electrical activity is happening in our brains all the time, as networks of tiny brain cells send messages to each other.
These messages control all our thoughts, movements, senses, and body functions. A seizure happens when there is a sudden, intense burst of electrical activity, or misfire, in the brain. This causes the messages between cells to get mixed up. The result is an epileptic seizure. These things have lots of names like fits, seizures, funny turns, and attacks.

Following first seizure Parent Information Leaflet