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What's your opinion/ experience of nut free schools?

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BagOfBags · 15/03/2014 20:04

I'm beginning to think about schools for DS who has a severe nut allergy. What I'm wondering is what people think about nut free schools. My gut reaction is that they must be a good thing but how has it worked for you / your child in reality? Are nut bans actually enforced or do they create a false sense of security.
Ds's nursery is nut free and his key worker always sits next to him whenever there's food around to make sure he only eats his own. I'm not sure how much supervision he would get in reception.
Thanks for reading.

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Roseformeplease · 19/04/2014 23:16

I work in a school where all staff have been trained, in the past, to cope with allergic pupils including administering the epi pen. We also cope with diabetics, epileptics and other problems.

Schools are used to coping. They will do everything they can, I am sure.

ukey · 24/04/2014 23:57

weather a school has a nut ban in place or not, the school still have to put a care plan in place to keep an allergic child safe. as always even when there is a nut ban things will still slip though, and parents may still give their children products containing nuts.

we are in 4th year of primary school (with a nut ban) and it has not been socially isolating at all. If anything the other children are very supportive.

surely a special nut free table would be more isolating, this is common practice in USA and kids do struggle with it.

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