Healthy Schools: eating disorders

Eating disorders don't affect a specific gender, age or size of person. Spotting the early signs and referring students to the right place is critical and could be the first step towards recovery. These resources can help.

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Tips and signposting

• The Healthy London Partnership has created a helpful 2-page document (external link - PDF, 375KB) that includes tips and signposting for teachers.
• The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families has produced a document  for supporting mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools (external link - PDF, 1.2MB). Page 5 is dedicated to eating disorders. The institute has also created a detailed 3-page document to notice the first signs of eating disorders in children and teens.
  • Eating Problems - Anna Freud (PDF, 117KB)
     

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For young people and their families

• This useful page (external link) from YoungMinds can be shared with young people exhibiting signs of eating disorders to help them to understand how it can affect their health and wellbeing.
• Beat Eating Disorders has excellent resources (external link) to support people with eating disorders, their families and others working with them.
• And here are some useful contacts from Beat (external link) for the young person or their family.

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Eating disorder toolkit 

• Eating Disorder Toolkit for those who are 16+ (PDF, 1MB)
• Parents Eating Disorder Toolkit (PDF, 600KB)
• Teachers Eating Disorder Toolkit (PDF, 400KB)
• Eating Disorders and COVID-19 - The Safeguarding Company with Jenny Tomei (PDF, 3.3MB)
• Resource for Parents Early Intervention and Prevention - Compulsive Exercise (PDF, 436KB)

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