Comprehensive Allergy Management for Wraparound Care and Holiday Clubs

The resources on this page are designed to help UK wraparound care providers develop robust policies and procedures that prioritise the safety and inclusion of children with allergies. This includes promoting organisation-wide allergy awareness through tools like AllergyWise® for Wraparound Care, an online training course that offers best practice guidance, downloadable posters, and clear protocols for managing allergies. Resources cover essential topics such as allergen management, staff responsibilities, spare pens in schools, and preventing allergy bullying, along with FAQs specific to wraparound care.

By adopting a comprehensive approach to allergen management, wraparound care providers can create a safer, more inclusive environment that builds trust and loyalty among children, parents, and carers. With these resources, organisations can enhance their allergy protocols, ensuring a fully supportive experience for children with allergies across all aspects of wraparound care.

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Take an AllergyWise® Course

Unlike other allergy training, Anaphylaxis UK is uniquely placed through its health and education specialists, to provide regularly updated the AllergyWise® courses and content to make sure that you receive the most up-to -date support.

AllergyWise® Wraparound Care and Holiday Clubs

This course has been designed to help staff in any organisation that provides Wraparound Care and Holiday Clubs for children and young people. Core content includes common causes of an allergic reaction, how to recognise and manage anaphylaxis, how to use adrenaline auto-injectors, and practical tips for safely managing children and young people with allergies.

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The importance of communication

It can be an anxious time for parents/carers when they are handing over the care of their child to someone outside the family who may not have the same experience in managing allergy. Having an open and transparent allergy aware approach in the organisation will create trust and ensure that the child’s time at the organisation is safe and successful.

It is recommended that the organisation’s allergy policy is placed on the website and the registration form should specifically ask whether a child has an allergy.

Proactive communication is essential for a trusting relationship. It is important for staff to meet with the parent/carer as soon as possible to discuss the procedures in place to protect the child so that everyone is clear and comfortable with the organisation’s plans.

Responsibilities

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Allergy policy that is based on statutory guidance, Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions, 2017. Have clear procedures and processes that are known to all staff. Ensure that these include the need for the student’s allergy action plan and individual health care plan or individual risk assessment.
Arrange annual specific allergy and anaphylaxis training for all staff including those who join part way through a year. This must include day to day management and emergency response.
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Be inclusive. Ensure that all children are able to safely participate in all activities.
If the provision is based in a school, it may be possible to have access to the school’s ‘Spare’ adrenaline auto-injectors if they hold them.
Record and report any incident that results in an allergic reaction or anaphylaxis. Review risk assessments, policy and procedures as a result.
Communicate regularly with parents/carers to support children with allergies.

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Allergy Bullying

1 in 3 children with food allergy report bullying. It is vital that the organisation’s policies include measures to prevent all forms of bullying. This includes allergy bullying which must be treated seriously. Participants should be made aware of the procedures in place and how to inform staff if an incident occurs. Useful websites include, Childline , NSPCC and Anti-Bullying Alliance.

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We have guidance for all stages of a student’s educational journey that is based on the relevant sector legislation. Click on the links below to find out more.

Guidance for Clubs & Youth Organisations

The information and resources on this page will support your club or organisation to develop best practice policies and procedures to ensure children with allergies are managed safely.

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Best Practice Resources and UK Guidance

  • Allergy Action Plans

    Allergy Action Plans are designed to function as individual healthcare plans for children with food allergies, providing medical and parental consent for schools to administer medicines in the event of an allergic reaction, including consent to administer a spare adrenaline auto-injector.

    We recommend that all parents and schools use the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) Allergy Action Plan to ensure continuity. This is a national plan that has been agreed by the BSACI, Anaphylaxis UK and Allergy UK. These plans have been designed to facilitate first aid treatment of anaphylaxis, to be delivered by people without any special medical training or equipment apart from access to an adrenaline auto-injector. Please note, the plans are medical documents and should be completed by a child’s health professional, in partnership with parents/carers.

    There are four plans available; a generic plan for individuals assessed as not needing an adrenaline auto-injector, and a personal plan for individuals prescribed an EpiPen or Jext.

    Click here to download the four different Allergy Action Plans here

  • Model Policy for Allergy Management at School

    Anaphylaxis UK and Allergy UK have worked with the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) and the Medical Conditions in Schools Alliance, to develop a Model Policy for Allergy Management at School guide. It is designed to support schools to develop a ‘Gold Standard’ policy to manage children’s allergies safely, so that children and their parents feel reassured that a robust policy is in place.

    The guide has been reviewed by Professor Adam Fox, Paediatric Allergist at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London, Dr Paul Turner, MRC Clinician Scientist in Paediatric Allergy & Immunology at Imperial College and the BSACI Standards of Care Group.

    Click here to view the Model Policy for Allergy Management at School guide

    Click here for an example, editable template model policy

  • Wraparound Childcare Guidance for Schools

    This non-statutory guidance explains the role of schools and trusts educating primary school aged children in supporting parents to access wraparound childcare. It provides advice on how to deliver new or expanded wraparound childcare.

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