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School allergy management failings found by study
Tom, 13, from Essex, is now educated at home amid concerns his school was not always managing his severe allergies safely.
He said: "I was increasingly anxious being in school with my allergies.
"The teachers didn't really know about them and would shout at me saying I couldn't do stuff like sit on the ground. That made me feel upset.
"I wasn't allowed at school dinner and sometimes other children brought in nuts in their packed lunches and ate them near me which was really scary."
He said he didn't feel teachers cared for him properly and that he "definitely feels safer at home".
His mum, Alison, said when he moved to a larger junior school there was a "catalogue of repeated errors which caused severe concern his anaphylaxis wasn't being managed safely".
"Anaphylaxis care seems to be subjective [as to] who is dealing with it rather than having a consen
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The mother of a boy who died of a food allergy says schools are putting children 'at risk' by not doing enough to manage the dangers.
Benedict Blythe, five, who was allergic to dairy, eggs, peanuts, sesamfrön and chickpeas, tragically collapsed at school in Stamford, Lincolnshire, just hours after 'opening his advert calendar' and going off to classes 'happy and healthy'.
Now his mother Helen, who set up the Benedict Blythe Foundation in her son's memory, has demanded stronger legislation, claiming that current measures to protect children with allergies are 'not good enough'.
She told the BBC: 'Measures need to be put in place to keep children with allergies in England safe.
'What is in place now is not good enough.
Benedict Blythe (pictured), who was allergic to dairy, eggs, peanuts, sesame and chickpeas died after collapsing at school in Stamford, Lincolnshire
His mother Helen (pictured) has described how he 'opened his advent calendar and didn't come home again' and
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Benedict Blythe Foundation publishes REACT report
The Benedict Blythe Foundation today (20th March 2024) published its REACT report based on freedom of information request on the subject of allergies in schools, to over 20,000 English schools. Analysis was carried out on a 10% sample of English schools by the Institute of Clever Stuff and compares against good practice. The findings revealed:
● Allergy management in schools varies widely, and it is down to chance whether a child’s school has recommended allergy safeguards in place creating a ‘postcode lottery’ for families.
● Recording allergy incidents is either not happening or is inaccurate, meaning schools and government have no awareness of the scale of allergy risk in English schools.
● Almost half of schools don’t hold their own life-saving allergy medicinering, relying on a child having their own medication, which they often don’t.
● Communication of how the school manages allergies and emergency response through polic