Tracey Dunn is the Education and AllergyWise® Manager for Anaphylaxis UK. Tracey has recently joined the team following her retirement from Headship having taught and led schools for 30 years. Tracey’s vast experience and knowledge ensures that our training and education packages help those who live with serious allergies and those who live and work alongside them, have the knowledge and understanding they need to ensure that the environment is safe, inclusive and welcoming. As a qualified teacher and Headteacher, Tracey understands how to make schools safer places to learn. She has created resources that align with current teaching practices enabling students’ understanding of allergy to develop and which help to create a whole-school awareness of allergy.
Allergy education has been a passion of Tracey’s for many years as she is a mum to two allergic teenagers. In a voluntary capacity, she has supported the safer schools programme for Anaphylaxis UK and has worked with her local CCG and Education Authority to develop robust training for schools in her area. Tracey has presented at conferences including BASCI and been a part of creating the National Allergy Strategy and the Allergy Safety in Schools statutory guidance. She has participated in webinars that have helped improve the knowledge and understanding of allergies for school staff.
In this episode, Tracey explains the EYFS Safeguarding Reforms around Safer Eating and sets out the essential differences between allergies, intolerances and anaphylaxis. Tracey shares practical, whole-setting approaches to keeping children safe, from allergy action plans to simple systems like colour-coded medication storage.
In this episode you’ll:
- Discover the little-known signs of anaphylaxis in young children who don’t yet have the words to describe it
- Learn why an allergic reaction is never triggered by a first exposure, and what that means for your setting
- Understand the dangerous allergy myths Tracey hears again and again, and why they’re wrong
- Find out what the EYFS safeguarding reforms actually require of your registration forms, staff and paediatric first aid training
- Explore practical systems, from colour-coded medication storage to special plates, that keep children safe at mealtimes
Watch the full interview to find out how a whole-setting approach to allergies could keep the children in your care safe, and help you meet the EYFS safeguarding reforms.
Episode Links:
Guidance for EY settings (free): https://www.anaphylaxis.org.uk/education/guidance-for-early-years-settings-2/
AllergyWise® for EY (training course): https://www.anaphylaxis.org.uk/education/allergywise-for-early-years-settings-information/
Early Years Setting Award (free): https://www.anaphylaxis.org.uk/education/allergywise-early-years-setting-award/
All social media as @‌anaphylaxisuk
BASCI Allergy action plan: https://www.bsaci.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BSACIAllergyActionPlan2018NoAAI2981-2.pdf
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