Get ready for Benedict’s Law and new guidance
What does Benedict’s Law mean for you?
Get ready for Benedict’s Law
From September 2026 schools in England must comply with new allergy safety legislation called Benedict’s Law.
Local Authority-maintained schools, academies and pupil refrerral units must have:
- ZA dedicated allergy safety policy
- ZRegard to new statutory guidance called Allergy safety in schools
Independent schools and non-maintained special schools will be included from early 2027, when elements of the statutory guidance will become legal duties. Read our Benedict’s Law FAQs.
How do you make sure your school is compliant with Benedict’s Law?
The Allergy Team are the school allergy experts and we will work with you every step of the way.
We already support thousands of schools and multi-academy trusts to get compliant and when you work with us, your staff get ongoing allergy safety advice from our Team. Get started with our School Allergy Safety Toolkit.
What should schools do now to comply with Benedict’s Law?
Appoint and train a Designated Allergy Lead
We’re the only organisation offering Designated Allergy Lead training. Enrol your allergy lead so they have all the tools to implement the new guidance and are equipped to support colleagues and pupils with confidence.
Arrange allergy training for all staff
Our CPD-accredited whole-school training is considered the gold-standard for schools. It has been approved by top allergy clinicians and meets all the training criteria required by Benedict’s Law. The video-based e-learning includes: understanding allergy, how to reduce risk for pupils with allergies, supporting inclusion, and how to respond in an allergy emergency or asthma attack (including how to use adrenaline devices and inhalers). Enrol all your staff and add new joiners whenever you like. You can access training progress reports to keep track of staff compliance.
Write your school's allergy policy
Our free allergy policy template is easy to adapt to any setting. It helps set out role responsibilities, how your school reduces risk, and expectations around the management of allergy medication, school trips and sports fixtures. Created in collaboration with allergy clinicians, families and educators.
Buy spare adrenaline pens
The guidance is that schools are expected to hold spare adrenaline pens (in addition to those prescribed to individuals). These can be bought from a pharmacy without prescription.
Contact parents and carers and start creating Individual Healthcare Plans for pupils with allergies
Find out what should be in an IHP for students with allergies at one of our free webinars.
Join the Schools Allergy Register and we'll work with you to earn our trust mark
Join the hundreds of schools signed up to join the Schools Allergy Register. You’ll get support and training for your whole-school so everyone understands allergy, how to reduce risk and how to respond in an emergency. Includes whole-school training, a place on our Designated Allergy Lead training, access to expert Q&As and ongoing support from our specialist team. Plus, when you’re meeting best practice, you’ll earn our trust mark.
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We are co-producing this new guidance and will share new information with you as soon as it’s made public. Sign up to our newsletter for updates.
The Allergy Team is one of a number of organisations who have worked with the Department for Education to co-produce Allergy Safety in Schools.
Join a FREE webinar to find out more.