Allergy Awareness Training is essential for individuals working with children in schools and early years settings, local authorities, home to school transport providers, Integrated care boards (ICBs), including executive leads for SEND, Designated clinical officers / designated medical officers, Staff working for NHS providers, School nursing teams delivering the Healthy Child Programme.
This training is in line with Allergy Safety in Schools Statutory Guidance June 2026 – Click for link
The key points covered in this Allergy Safety Awareness Training are listed below:
- Asthma, food allergies, intolerances and allergic reactions, eczema, seasonal rhinitis (hay fever) and Coeliac disease
- Managing, producing, reviewing and publishing policies
- Allergy safety policies and inspection
- Supporting children and young people to manage their allergy
- Unacceptable practice
- Sources of support
- What an allergy safety policy should contain
- Allergy awareness training
- Wellbeing of children and young people with allergy
- Minimising risks of exposure to known allergens
- “Nut free” policies
- Air quality
- Food provision
- Individual Health Care Plans for allergy
- Allergy and Asthma Action Plans
- Prescribed medication (adrenaline devices and asthma inhalers)
- Incident recording and reporting
- + much more.
Who should enrol on this Online Allergy Awareness Training course
This Online Allergy Awareness Training course has been created to work best with settings such as (and not limited to) Schools, Academies, Nurseries and Per-Schools, Sports Centres, Sports Teams, Leisure centres, Clinics, Surgeries, Health Centres, lone workers, out of school and afterschool settings.
Link to the HSE Website – click here
