Allergy Awareness for Parents and Schools

Updated best practice guidelines for anaphylaxis prevention and management in schools and children’s education and care

Parents and carers will be pleased to learn that the National Allergy Council has updated the Best practice guidelines for anaphylaxis prevention and management in schools and children’s education and care services. Additional supporting resources to help schools and children’s education and care services adopt an ‘Allergy Aware’ approach to anaphylaxis management have also been updated where required.

The best practice guidelines are comprehensive and practical and include key principles for reducing the risk of anaphylaxis along with recommendations for the following:

• Allergy aware approach
• Anaphylaxis management policy and plans
• Allergy documentation
• Emergency response
• Staff training
• Community and peer education
• Post incident management and incident reporting

The Allergy Aware website is a resource hub that aims to provide people working in schools, children’s education and care services and camps, as well as parents, health professionals and students, with information and practical resources to manage severe allergies in the school and children’s education and care settings.

This website has been developed by the National Allergy Council to support the allergy aware approach recommended in the Best practice guidelines for the prevention and management of anaphylaxis, developed in partnership with the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) and Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia and in consultation with key stakeholders.

Find the Allergy Aware Resource hub at www.allergyaware.org.au