Schools in England must provide allergy awareness training for all staff for the first time, under new statutory guidance announced by the Department for Education. Spare adrenaline auto-injectors must also be stocked by schools for emergencies involving children without a prior allergy diagnosis. The plans follow cross-party support for Benedict's Law, a campaign to improve allergy safety in schools by ensuring consistent, life-saving protections for children with food allergies and anaphylaxis. However, Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, warns each requirement in the new guidance needs funding and "schools cannot be expected to fund from their budgets". Early education minister Olivia Bailey said: "Lots of schools in the country already have great policies in place and are already doing a lot of this. It is something which we think is reasonable for schools to pay for out of core budgets.…