This workshop will aim to give an overview of different eating disorders that can affect children & young people. It will identify some of the signs that an eating disorder may be present or possible, detail ways of supporting a child or young person experiencing an eating disorder and identify avenues for further support for the child and the family. We will also cover the impact of an eating disorder on siblings and the considerations parents/ carers might need when liaising/dealing with schools.

This training session is brought to you by NSPCWT & The Sunflower Network. The trainer, Naomi Moore, trained as a play and creative arts and child/parent therapist. She runs the weekend play provision and volunteer mentoring at Great Ormond Street Hospital and runs training for GOSH, international children's charities and in schools on play, children's emotional wellbeing, mental health and trauma informed education.

Prior to her therapy career, she worked in early years and primary education specialising in nurture group work with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. She has worked with children and young people of all ages and their families internationally, as well as in the UK, across both state and private sectors including specialist adolescent inpatient units, orphanages, refugee camps, palliative care and severe medical trauma. She has also written a number of children’s books.

This is a free training event for parent carers of children with additional needs and/or disabilities within North Somerset. This event is also open to professionals in North Somerset who work with children/young people with additional needs and/or disabilities. Priority on place allocation will therefore be given to residents in North Somerset but if additional spaces are available these will be allocated to parent carers outside of North Somerset at our discretion.

The funding is being granted through Pears Foundation’s trusted, long-term Partners to ensure funding gets to frontline organisations and their communities.

We would like to thank the Pears Foundation whose philanthropic support of NSPCWT has made this training freely available.

The funding is part of the Government’s £750m charities package.