Helping You Create AllergyWise® Learning Environments

Whether you’re teaching toddlers, teenagers, or university students, we’re here to help you feel confident in supporting pupils with serious allergies.

Supporting Allergy Awareness in All Education Settings

At Anaphylaxis UK, we provide expert guidance, free resources and trusted training to help create allergy-aware environments across early years settings, primary schools, secondary schools and universities. Whether you’re a teacher, childcare provider, or school leader, our tailored support helps you recognise the signs of serious allergies, manage risk effectively and respond confidently in an emergency. Start by choosing your education setting to access relevant tools and training.

Choose your setting to find tailored guidance, training, and resources

Early Years (Nurseries & Childminders)

Support for childcare providers working with babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Includes allergy policy templates, staff training and emergency planning.

Primary Schools

Everything you need to make your school allergy-aware, including lesson plans, AllergyWise training and award schemes for KS1 and KS2 settings.

Secondary Schools

Tailored tools and guidance for teachers and pastoral staff in KS3–KS5. Raise awareness, manage risk and support pupils with serious allergies.

Universities & Colleges

Resources for FE and HE institutions to improve allergy inclusion, emergency preparedness and student engagement.

New and improved AllergyWise® training

Our new and improved AllergyWise® courses are packed with practical guidance to help you confidently support pupils with serious allergies. In just around an hour, you’ll learn to recognise allergic reactions, manage anaphylaxis, use adrenaline auto-injectors, and create safer learning environments.

AllergyWise® for Schools

This course for all school staff covers common causes of allergic reactions, symptoms of anaphylaxis, how to use adrenaline auto-injectors (EpiPen® and Jext®), and how to manage pupils with allergies in school, including responsibilities, risk assessment, Allergy Action Plans, allergy bullying, storage of adrenaline auto-injectors and practical scenarios.

AllergyWise® for Early Years Settings

This course for all early years providers covers common causes of allergic reactions, symptoms of anaphylaxis, how to use adrenaline auto-injectors (EpiPen® and Jext®), and how to manage children with allergies in early years settings, including allergen avoidance, responsibilities, risk assessment, Allergy Action Plans, storage of adrenaline auto-injectors and practical scenarios relevant to early years settings.

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Classroom Resources & Lesson Plans

This collection of allergy management resources has been developed to support schools, early years settings, wraparound care providers, and youth organisations in creating safe, inclusive environments for children and young people living with serious allergies.

Model Allergy Policies for organisations to adopt and adapt

These template policies, produced by Anaphylaxis UK in collaboration with clinical experts and the Department for Education, set out a clear framework for allergy management. Each policy is tailored for a specific setting—schools, early years, wraparound care, or clubs—and can be adapted to meet local needs.

Whole Setting Risk Assessment Templates | Evaluate and reduce setting-wide risks)

These editable risk assessment templates help organisations assess and manage allergy-related risks across their entire setting. They are designed to ensure consistent procedures are in place for medication access, allergen avoidance, emergency response, and safe participation in activities, events, and trips.

Individual Risk Assessment Templates | For specific children/young people

These forms support a personalised approach to allergy management. Created in partnership with parents and (where appropriate) the child or young person, they assess specific risks and ensure tailored strategies are in place for each participant, aligned with their healthcare plan.

Template Letters for Allergy Communication

Clear communication is vital for allergy safety. These template letters help settings inform parents, carers, and the wider community about allergy protocols, the presence of allergic children, and requests for spare adrenaline auto-injectors in line with legal guidance.

We are proud to partner with organisations who all share the commitment to making educational establishments safer for children and young people.

Safer Schools Programme

Keeping children and young people with allergies safe during the time they are in your organisation demands proactive strategies and concrete actions. Navigating the complexities of food allergen management requires whole organisation awareness. In order to support this, we have compiled a comprehensive set of guidance and recommendations for every sector or organisation that works with children and young people.

This guidance grounded in legislation, regulatory requirements and best practice addresses key areas such as staff training, communication, policies and procedures.

Schools have a legal duty to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions including allergies. The most serious allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) usually begins within minutes and can be life-threatening. Sadly, there have been cases of fatal anaphylaxis happening when a child is at school. Lessons learnt from these tragic cases emphasise the need to have robust allergy management systems in place.,

By adopting a holistic approach to allergen management organisations can create a safer, more inclusive environment that fosters trust and loyalty among all stakeholders.

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