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Coffee meeting/forum
🏷️ FOC
🎧 HIEDA members including healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, medical providers and those with a responsibility for medication administration, first aid, mental health in an education setting or workplace
📍 Online
Course outline
This coffee meeting forum gives health centre staff the opportunity to network with peers, discuss current challenges, and access guidance and support. Sarah Knight from The Allergy Team will join the session to share practical insights on managing allergies in schools. Drawing on her personal experience as a mother of two children with food allergies and her professional background in journalism and television production, Sarah combines real-world perspective with evidence-based guidance to help staff feel confident in supporting students safely.
Speaker:
Sarah Knight, Founder and CEO, The Allergy Team
Sarah Knight is Founder and CEO of The Allergy Team, which supports schools to manage food allergies. The company co-created the Department for Education backed Schools Allergy Code, a framework for best practice, and runs Designated Allergy Lead training as well as the Schools Allergy Register. Before setting up The Allergy Team, Sarah was a senior TV executive working on prime-time BBC shows including Your Home Made Perfect and the flagship consumer show, Watchdog. Sarah has two children, both with food allergies.
