Coming soon Benedict's Law takes effect for schools in England from September 2026 — we're finishing testing now so you're covered when it lands.
Coming soon — ahead of Benedict's Law, September 2026

Built for Benedict's Law. Ready for a CQC inspection too.

A repeating menu, a consented register, and an automatic daily check that flags exactly who to watch before a single meal is served — not another self-check app, a system that runs itself in the background.

Ahead of Benedict's Law becoming statutory for schools this September, we're finishing our own testing on a live demo account first — register your interest below and we'll be in touch the moment it's ready.

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The regulatory picture, and how this maps to it

Not legal advice — a plain-language summary to show what this software actually helps evidence.

For schools: Benedict's Law

In force in England from September 2026

The DfE's "Allergy Safety in Schools" statutory guidance (published 6 July 2026) expects every school to hold a whole-school allergy policy, train all staff annually, keep spare adrenaline auto-injectors on site, and maintain an individual healthcare plan for each pupil with a serious allergy.

  • Register + consent = a live pupil allergy record
  • Daily automatic check = your whole-school policy in action
  • Staff training tracker = evidences the annual requirement
  • Individual Allergy Action Plan = supports the IHP requirement

For care homes: CQC standards

Regulations 12 & 14, Health and Social Care Act 2008

There's no named-person law for care homes the way schools have Benedict's Law — but resident dietary and allergy safety sits squarely under CQC's fundamental standards, and campaigns like Owen's Law are pushing written allergen disclosure further across food service generally.

  • Register + consent = a live resident dietary-needs record
  • Daily automatic check = control evidence for Regulation 12/14
  • Kitchen allergy list = a practical, postable safety document
  • Compliance report = suitable to show an inspector directly

How it actually works

Set it up once, and the daily check runs itself from there.

Repeating menu, with templates

Menus in schools and care homes cycle, not change daily — tag a dish's allergens once, on its cycle day, and it's covered every time it comes round again. Save whole menus as named templates (e.g. "Autumn term," "Half-term") and line them up to hand over to each other automatically on a schedule.

Consented register

One entry per pupil or resident, with mandatory recorded consent from a parent/guardian or the resident/next of kin before anything is saved — even "no known allergies." Filter and group by class or year.

Automatic daily check

Every morning, every active person on the register is cross-checked against today's actual menu — no one has to remember to look anything up.

Register-linked Allergy ID cards

Generate a scannable Allergy ID card straight from a register entry — a pupil can show their own code instead of staff looking them up, on a phone, printed, or added to Apple/Google Wallet.

Incident / near-miss log

Record any serious allergy reaction or near miss — logging one automatically flags that person's Individual Healthcare Plan for an early review, and marks any adrenaline auto-injector used as needing replacement.

Spare AAI inventory

Track spare, general-use adrenaline auto-injector devices by dose, brand, expiry and storage location — flags automatically when stock drops below the DfE's recommended minimum for schools.

Individual Action Plans

A printable, per-person allergy action plan — allergies, care notes, consent record, and the standard anaphylaxis emergency steps, on one page.

Kitchen allergy list

A photo-free, postable summary for the prep area — who, which group, and what to avoid, grouped by class or room.

Staff training tracker

A printable, one-row-per-staff-member record of who's completed allergen awareness training and when — ready to show an inspector.

Compliance readiness score

A rough-and-ready readiness indicator — policy published, AAI stock, staff training, IHP reviews — with a clear pointer to whatever's still outstanding, not a one-off checklist that goes stale.

Role-based staff accounts

Give each named member of staff their own short PIN, so register edits are attributed to a real person rather than "a member of staff" — with manager-only permissions for the most sensitive actions.

Parent self-service portal

A shareable link so a parent or next of kin can add their own child or relative to the register directly, with their own recorded consent — no re-typing what they've already told you.

How it all connects

One connected system — not a stack of separate paperwork.

1

Menu set up once

Tag allergens once, on the cycle day — templates hand over to each other automatically.

2

Register gets consent

Nothing saves without recorded consent from a parent/guardian or the resident/next of kin.

3

Daily check runs itself

Every morning, everyone on the register is cross-checked against today's actual menu, automatically.

4

Gets their own Allergy ID card

Generated straight from their register entry — phone, print, or Apple/Google Wallet.

5

Staff scan it at mealtime

Same dashboard shows their allergies against today's menu instantly — no relying on memory.

6

Incidents feed straight back in

Log a reaction and it flags that person's Action Plan for early review — any auto-injector used gets marked as needing replacement.

7

Compliance evidence builds itself

Readiness score, training log and inspection-day pack all update from the same data, automatically.

Covered once, covered every day after — the daily check and the card keep running themselves.

+ + + + + + = one connected system

Everything else carries over, unchanged

This isn't a stripped-down side product — it's the same engine restaurants already rely on.

  • Full allergen compliance report
  • Printable allergy matrix
  • Allergen basics quiz
  • Full change log / audit trail
  • Possible tagging-gap detector
  • Tamper-evident register history, publicly verifiable
  • One-click inspection-day export pack
  • Print-ready, no extra software needed

A register you can verify yourself

Every check, edit and consent record in the register is chained to the one right before it — quietly alter a past entry, and every link after it breaks. Any school or care home that's switched on public verification can be checked here, no login needed.

How it works: each new register entry is fingerprinted together with the record right before it, like a chain of wax seals. Re-checking the whole chain instantly shows whether anything was altered afterwards — and exactly where.

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Free for your first 2 months

then from £999/year

Every school and care home gets 2 months free, no card required. After that it's from £999/year, all-inclusive — every feature, no add-ons. Set-up is free too.

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