Question follow-through · 11618
Children: Allergies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to improve the (a) safeguarding and (b) wellbeing of children with allergies in schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 31 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 6 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to improve the (a) safeguarding and (b) wellbeing of children with allergies in schools.
31 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2024
Answer published
Section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014 places a duty on maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units to make arrangements for supporting pupils with medical conditions. This includes allergies.The accompanying statutory guidance, 'Sup...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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