Could I be sacked over this?

[Sweetiexx]

could i be sacked for this?
I work as a cook manager in a school, a child who has an allergy was given a wrong dessert by my kitchen assistant. The child is ok had no reaction.

the school also had another incident regarding this child from the classroom. But the head teacher has said they are going to do an investigation with the governors.

we have had no new information from the school regarding allergies or pictures of the children.
all we had was a teacher come up and pointed this child out. My staff member couldn’t remember the child.
no as the manager could I be sacked because of this?

many thanks

Yes, I think we are in agreement.

If she had indeed been told to stop pestering for the booklet and had made the safeguarding lead fully aware of the risks, then short of resigning and/or refusing to serve any food to any children, there wasn't much else that she could do.

However, I'm guessing that the OP would have set out those actions in her previous posts if she had actually taken them. It seems likely to me that she had asked for the book, probably only once, and without putting anything in writing, and having not received it, she was then relying on her staff to remember which children couldn't be given what. And if that is a fair assessment of what happened, it would be in her best interests to accept responsibility and propose revised procedures that would ensure that the incident couldn't be repeated.

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I have asked a number of people regarding this booklet, so have my staff too.
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I have asked before about photos and was told we are not allowed them up.

regarding the booklet I spoke to the head on Thursday
her exact words were we are still doing the booklet with all the information. as not ready.

I know my job well and made sure that my staff knew the children that had allergies best to my knowledge.
I automatically though my member of staff knew who they were, I cannot be blamed for human error or through forgetfulness. All my other staff knew who this child was.

the schools systems are beyond a joke, and they are.

again on Thursday, a child came with a teacher, we have never seen this child before and was told they had an allergy and not just one 3 allergies. I had a queue of screaming children telling me what they want and didn’t want for their dinner at the time.
I made the teacher write down the allergies for me and gave her the food.
this is how we are shown a child, at a queue with screaming children.

after reading all your posts I am not going to serve any children with allergies untill I have all their information, pictures, different colour plates, kids in the queue first etc.
its too risky for all of us.

When my dd started secondary school (she didn't go to primary in the uk) we had to go in for a meeting with her tutor and the kitchen manager. The kitchen manager was the one who led the meeting. She had never had a child with a peanut allergy before and she asked a lot of questions and took a lot of notes.

She asked if dd could bring a packed lunch for the first day and emailed me in the afternoon of the first day to say everything was OK at her end and dd could start buying her lunch at school and on day two dd said all the lunchtime stagg were saying 'ohh, you must be Jane' and there was an anaphylaxis plan with her photo on it behind the counter.

You need to go in writing to the school on this.

bullet point you have asked for information about the booklet and were told it's not ready.
bullet point that children with allergies are only identified at lunch etc.

then state that the process is not safe and therefore for children with allergies to be served:

• the booklet must be available.
• children's pictures put up on the wall with clear outline of allergies
• different coloured plates will be available for children with allergies.

without the above from the school children with allergies cannot be served.

laca.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachment/basic-page/LACA%20Allergen%20Management%20Guidance%20%28c%29%20version%20SEPT%2020.pdf

No.

My above post is guidance

Have you done a risk assessment for handling kids with allergies eg refuse to serve kids food until properly identified with a calm meeting - not just a rushed handover during lunch service.

@Noras as this post is 6 months old, I would assume OP has her answer already!!!!!

What do you not understand about being a manager? The buck stops with you. I cannot believe you allowed your kitchen to be run in such a sloppy manner.

The kid didn’t have a reaction so he’s not allergic to that item after all. Isn’t that a good thing?

Sorry haven't RTFT, but given that an allergy could result in death, there needs to be some decent processes in place. Seems the school was lucky this child was OK. I'd assume as the Manager this is your accountability, and even of it isn't perhaps you need to drive this.