If you’re responsible for training, compliance, or pupil safety in a school or multi-academy trust, you’ll already be preparing for the changes arriving this September.
With Benedict’s Law and updated Department for Education (DfE) guidance placing greater emphasis on allergy awareness and emergency response, schools are expected to ensure staff have the knowledge and confidence to respond appropriately when a pupil experiences a severe allergic reaction.
The DfE’s expectations go beyond simply ‘having a policy in place’. Staff across the school, including teaching, support, administrative, and even catering teams, must receive regular allergy awareness training and understand their role in keeping children safe.
When an anaphylaxis emergency happens, there’s little time to stop and think. Staff need to recognise the signs, respond quickly, and know exactly what to do.
That’s why we’ve developed a new collection of iAM Academy courses designed to help schools build practical confidence in allergy response, medication safety, and supporting pupils with medical conditions.
To help schools and trusts prepare for these new expectations, we’re launching a brand-new collection of expert-written courses throughout the summer.
The collection covers some of the most important areas of pupil health, safety, and incident management. Whether staff need to respond to an anaphylactic emergency, administer medication safely, support pupils with long-term medical conditions, or report incidents correctly, each course focuses on the practical knowledge needed in real school environments.
Designed specifically for education settings, these courses help turn policy and guidance into clear actions staff can apply with confidence.
Following these releases, in September, we’ll also be adding two further courses to round out the collection: Crisis Management and Emergency Response, and Mental Health Crisis Response.
We know school timetables are busy, and staff have enough to do. That’s why every course in our library is designed to fit around the realities of the school day. Courses are bite-sized, typically taking between 5 and 30 minutes to complete, and using engaging animation and interactivity that keeps learners focused.
But keeping courses short is only part of the challenge. Staff also need to remember what they’ve learned and feel confident applying it in real situations.
That’s why we use realistic school-based scenarios and storytelling throughout our training. Rather than presenting policies as a list of rules, we show how they apply in everyday school life. This helps learners understand the decisions they may need to make and the impact those decisions can have.
The result is training that’s more engaging, easier to remember, and designed to build potentially life-saving confidence long after the course has been completed.
As schools prepare for the updated DfE expectations and Benedict’s Law, having the right training plan in place is an important part of demonstrating that staff are equipped to support pupils safely.
Whether you’re training a single school or rolling out this learning across an entire trust, iAM Academy makes it easy to assign courses, automate enrollments, monitor completion rates, and track progress from one central platform.
If you’d like to see how the new collection can fit into your September training plans, we’d be happy to show you how it works.
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