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All the latest (plus our archive) covering industry developments and updates from us.
Benedict's Law Explained:
What schools need to know before September 2026
New legislation on school allergy management is on its way. The School Allergy Safety Bill, often referred to as Benedict's Law, introduces new statutory requirements for allergy management in schools in England, including stocking emergency adrenaline, training staff in allergy awareness, and maintaining a dedicated allergy policy.
New School Food Standards Explained
What's changing and what does it mean for school caterers?
Are you ready for the proposed new School Food Standards? Set for their first major update in over a decade, these changes will have a direct operational impact on school catering teams, contract caterers, and leaders of multi-academy trusts (MATs).
Does Owen's Law apply to schools?
Allergen labelling for school caterers
When people talk about Owen's Law, the focus is usually on restaurants, cafés and takeaways. But schools serve food to children with allergies every day, so where do they fit in?
School Food Labelling Laws
How food label software for schools can help (Part 2)
How can schools ensure compliance with Natasha's Law, the School Food Standards and Benedict's Law? In Part 1, we looked at what each law covers and why they have been introduced. Now we tackle the practical questions for schools and caterers around how to manage all three without it becoming three separate compliance headaches. Read on to find out what schools and caterers should be doing to prepare, the most common mistakes we see in practice, and how food labelling software and joined-up ingredient and allergen data can make staying compliant far more straightforward.
School Allergen and Food Labelling Laws Explained
Natasha's Law, Benedict's Law and School Food Standards (Part 1)
If you work in school catering or education management in the UK, you'll know there's far more to serving school meals than filling plates. Every day is a balancing act between nutritional standards, tight budgets, staffing pressures, safeguarding responsibilities and the diverse needs of pupils. For the growing number of children living with food allergies, one small mistake can have serious consequences, making accurate allergen management a critical part of pupil safety and wellbeing.
