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With 8% of children and young people in the UK living with a food allergy, it’s highly likely that every childcare or educational setting will have at least one affected participant. This highlights the importance of allergy preparedness, ensuring staff are equipped to recognise and respond effectively to allergic reactions.

Our Safer Schools Programme supports schools, early years and wraparound care settings to help them with training, awareness raising, and policy writing to keep children and young people with allergies safe during the time they are in your care.

Please let your education setting know about how we can support them with a comprehensive allergy management approach.

Our new and improved AllergyWise® for Schools course will help settings understand the common causes of an allergic reaction, how to recognise and manage anaphylaxis, how to use adrenaline auto-injectors, practical tips for safely managing pupils with allergies, and lesson packs to involve pupils. Updates to the course includes a best practice guide for cookery classes, plus important information explaining the link between safeguarding and allergies.

It has been designed with headteachers, teachers, teaching assistants, lunchtime supervisors and/or member of administration staff in mind. A must-resource to share and encourage your school to participate in!

Plus, completing the training is one of the criteria for our AllergyWise® School Award!

Please remember we are here for all education settings. We have developed sector-specific best practice guidance and resources for all education organisations that will enable children and young people participating in activities to be safely included.

For early years settings – including nurseries, pre-schools, and childminders – we offer evidence-based information, trusted resources, and a tailored AllergyWise® training course. Importantly, our courses meet the requirements of the new guidelines in Safer Eating section in the Safeguarding in the EYFS framework effective from 1 September 2025. Plus, completing the training is one of the criteria for our AllergyWise® Early Years Setting Award!

We also have a comprehensive AllergyWise® Clubs and Youth Organisations and AllergyWise® Wraparound Care and Holiday Clubs training courses to ensure staff and volunteers are allergy aware and have the confidence to safely manage children with allergies in their care.