Are nut bans overkill if no one there has a life-threatening nut allergy?

Posted by Arlincornwall@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 162 comments

Curious on other people's thoughts on this.

A school has a nut ban in place.

No one there has a life-threatening allergy but there might be quite a few intolerances going on.

Statutory guidance suggests that nut bans aren't effective because it creates a false sense of security.

No bans for other allergies that people could have - dairy, gluten, shellfish and so on.

Should a school keep a nut ban just in case?

Is changing it just a ton of extra work for staff to change?

How do you then explain to other kids with say a gluten allergy, that they can't have cake with nut flour, but other kids can have cakes with gluten in for example.

Also to clarify... if someone has an allergy where touching a tiny bit of peanut butter or breathing in airbourne particles would cause them to go into anaphylactic shock, I think that's a different conversation. I'm more talking about blanket bans 'to be on the safe side'