However, the main focus in diabetes guidelines is on intensifying glucose levels with diabetes technologies and structured education.23 24 Therefore, most current education programmes for young people aim to enhance self-management skills such as carbohydrate counting and insulin-dose adjustment, to help optimise glucose levels; rather than addressing how to integrate living with diabetes in relation to the wider interpersonal and social challenges that they experience in this period. Here, INS is linked to diabetes mellitus.