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Wow what a simple idea. I was getting in a bit of a muddle trying to decide how to tackle this. Thank you so much. Going to download the cards tomorrow.

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Thanks woodlands :)

 

Maybe I could get away with something like that saying 'today's snack may contain.....', tick the lot and laminate, display for parents to easily see, ( a task in itself) and if they suddenly think 'oh I didn't tell them on the registration form that my child is allergic to that' they could mention it :D

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the legislation says we have a duty of care to protect children who may not be able to decide for themselves. We already gather information from parents but we buy food from supermarkets not from suppliers so they do not currently have to supply us with all the information. Notification would need to be done before the food was provided . I am wondering if the best option might not be to laminate the labels and put them on a 'key ring' available for the parents to access. I would need to remember to add anything extra of course (like when we have garlic bread). We give out birthday treats at the door so then that's up to the parents. Charitable events are not needed to be covered so that's not too bad either.

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Do you make meals wildflowers? If you are giving something straight from the packet, breadsticks, biscuits, cheese, cereal etc that's fine as you can just refer to the packet straight away to tell them. If you've made something eg spaghetti bolognese then do one of these cards as there's lots of ingredients in there so wouldn't be as easy to refer to all the packets!

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We have the same menu every week, with different side vegetables. If providing anything extra or different, we check the ingredients.

What I will do is to add a sheet to our Health and Safety Folder where the dishes and the allergens they contain are listed, e.g. Buttered bread: gluten, lactose.

Another list to write...

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I emailed my inclusion officer as I have no idea who else to contact and she has come back to me saying: 'I haven’t heard anything about this, if it was a requirement for Early Years settings we would generally be informed.'

Well that's me none the wiser then........

Toddles off the phone somebody else who might be able to help me... :rolleyes:

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Oh you super super people!!! Thanks so much for the links. Another job made easier! Fab!

 

One question though, I'm unsure if you have to keep the evidence for that day/week so is laminating and wiping off an option?

I'd much rather do that but if as suggested the evidence is needed to ascertain food poisoning etc, you wouldn't be able to.

 

What do you think?

 

We are on site of a school who provide our hot lunches. The cook there is on training for this today. Hopefully she will be able to clarify.

If I find anything useful out, I will post!

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Does anyone have any good ideas on how to manage the more ad hoc events, such as birthdays and parties where parents provide food for consumption on our premises? This is the bit that concerns me..listing allergens for those events will be a nightmare!

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Does anyone have any good ideas on how to manage the more ad hoc events, such as birthdays and parties where parents provide food for consumption on our premises? This is the bit that concerns me..listing allergens for those events will be a nightmare!

See finleysmaid's post in other thread (can't do the whole link thingy - sorry) looks like we should all be OK for our Christmas bashes :D

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I emailed our local environmental health about this and explained our procedures, she forwarded it to trading standards and all were happy. We currently cross reference a list of all allergies we have against ingredients and two staff members sign off on it each day.

I have huge concerns about having preprepared lists, as ingredients change on packets frequently. Only this week soya appeared in something that we have every month. I am concerned the lists will be out of date the day after they are written. I think I will use the check lists but complete in our usual way.

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Well thought I might just take a look, have a think, try and standardise what snacks we give the children, cut down on variety etc. Started looking at labels - such tiny tiny printing on some, then quite by accident I googled Kings Mill bread ingredients and Tesco's site came up with all the information on it - able to copy and paste into my document (ha,ha, ha) very pleased with myself, did the same for the rest of my snack items - Rock and Roll Tescos

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That's my line of thinking Pandas.

I am going to select 5/6 snack items, find the info then stick with them. I shall 'mass buy' and double check packaging each time.

I am glad we only provide snacks though.

Cooking- we shall put at an advance sheet with ingredients listed.

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Thanks for the link Carol will take a look later. Just wondering if its easier just to give fruit to

the children.

Obviously that's a great option, but some of ours just won't eat fruit, but the way I did it it was done in about 15 minutes. I will put a copy in with the registration pack I send out by e mail and I keep a hard copy at work in the kitchen so if any parent asks I can show them.

 

I looked at what we buy the most of because we know it's popular and on the Tescos website you can copy and paste the ingredients into your document, for our work information I also cut and paste the EU Legislation it referred to.

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