Monitoring of children

Medical monitoring and follow-up

If the medical tests and examinations carried out in schools reveal a problem, the parents or the person responsible for the pupil will be notified in writing. They must then take their child to a doctor for a medical follow-up. The doctor must record their opinion, or the treatment they propose, in writing, and forward this information to the school medical and social support services. The doctor's opinion will be added to the pupil's confidential school medical file.

As such, the school will have a trace of the child's medical follow-up. The pupil's development and health will be monitored in the course of other school medical examinations, taking into account previous findings.

If, after being informed of the doctor's opinion, no action is taken by the pupil's parents:

• they will be contacted by a healthcare professional, who will provide them with additional information, or offer to assist them in undertaking the course of action proposed for the child; or
• they will be sent a new notice.

Social and psychological monitoring and follow-up

If social monitoring is necessary, it will be carried out by the social worker or social hygiene assistant in the school medical and social support team, in close collaboration with either their local counterparts or, in general and technical secondary schools, with the Educational Psychology and Guidance Service (Service de psychologie et d'orientation scolaires - SPOS).

To ensure that social monitoring is consistent, school commissions and specialist National Education services (guidance services, medical, psychological and pedagogical services, etc.) all work closely together.  

Psychological support can be offered to primary school pupils if necessary.

In general and technical secondary schools, psychological support and follow-up is provided by the Educational Psychology and Guidance Service.