Written Question · S2W-15377 · Session 2
What guidance it issues to local authorities regarding (a) accommodating children with food allergies on school trips and (b) strategies fo…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it issues to local authorities regarding (a) accommodating children with food allergies on school trips and (b) strategies for dealing with children suffering from peanut allergies.
The answer
The Scottish Executive does not at present issue national guidance for local authorities on accommodating children with food allergies on school trips.
Likewise, the Executive does not issue national guidance for dealing with children suffering from peanut allergies. However, Hungry for Success, the Executive’s school food programme founded in the recommendations of the Expert Group on School Meals, encourages local authorities to accommodate the diets of individual children with special nutritional requirements such as peanut allergies at no additional expense to the child.
Likewise, the Executive does not issue national guidance for dealing with children suffering from peanut allergies. However, Hungry for Success, the Executive’s school food programme founded in the recommendations of the Expert Group on School Meals, encourages local authorities to accommodate the diets of individual children with special nutritional requirements such as peanut allergies at no additional expense to the child.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-15377 by reference.