Benedict's Law to be debated in the House of Lords

Monday, 2 February 2026 13:43

Source: Benedict Blythe Foundation Facebook page

A launch to protect children with allergies is taking a major step forward this week thanks to a campaign started in Stamford.

Benedict's Law in memory of Benedict Blythe is to be debated in the House of Lords tomorrow. Benedict's mum Helen Blythe says after assurances by the Government have been delayed for months. This moves them closer to making all schools as safe as possible.

‘Benedict died in 2021 and we've been campaigning since then and asking Department for Education to reform the way the allergies are safeguarded in schools and we've had many promises including last summer where we had our second petition with 14,000 signatures in just a couple of weeks. Where the promise that came back from the Department for Education was that they would put proposals forward in the autumn for how they would approach this and that they urgently wanted to make these changes and that's what we heard from the minister at the time. Now after after six months or so of silence we are really excited that this Lords amendment gives us an opportunity to move this forward and potentially seriously debated in the House of Commons, something that could be adopted and start taking forward ultimately as legislation that protects pupils with allergy’.