Webinar | Understanding Eating Disorders Primary

Price

£72. This price includes £12 VAT.

Facilitator

Anna Bateman

With over 24 years of experience in education as a teacher, trainer, consultant, and Interim Executive Board member, Anna Bateman has gained a fantastic understanding of pedagogy, school improvement, leadership, and what works.
She is passionate about placing prevention at the heart of every school, integrating mental well-being within the curriculum, school culture, and systems. Through this work, students have the opportunity to learn skills and techniques to cope with modern-day pressures alongside their academic studies.

Over the last 10 years, Anna has worked with and transformed hundreds of primary and secondary schools. She has excellent subject knowledge and a solid understanding of how schools work. This puts her in a unique position to be able to offer highly innovative and bespoke programs to resolve specific and complex issues.

As a previous member of the advisory group for the Department of Education, advising them on their mental health green paper, Anna has operated at the forefront of new initiatives, and her passion is to drive these forward to the benefit of schools, school leaders, and of course pupils and students.

Moreover, she is an accredited facilitator for the Academic Resilience Approach (Young Minds), Youth Mental Health First Aid Trained, as well as a licensed PATHS trainer promoting alternative thinking strategies.

This webinar will provide you with a clearer understanding of eating disorders in children and what schools can do to promote healthy attitudes towards food and body image as part of a whole-school approach to preventing these illnesses.

Description

For: Governors and trustees, senior leaders, teachers, and support staff.

Aim: This webinar will provide you with a clearer understanding of eating disorders in children and what schools can do to promote healthy attitudes towards food and body image as part of a whole-school approach to preventing these illnesses.

Rationale: With figures released by the NHS last year showing that record numbers of children in the UK are receiving treatment for eating disorders – and, alarmingly, that the percentage is rising sharply year on year – it is becoming increasingly important that school staff understand the scale of this issue and that schools are equipped to be able to detect and offer appropriate support as a community.

Learning Outcomes

Outcome 1:
Absorbing the current statistics around eating disorders occurring in children and young people.

Outcome 2:
Comprehending current guidelines for schools around their duty of care for pupils within both safeguarding and mental health.

Outcome 3:
Appreciating in more detail how eating disorders tend to manifest and who might be at particular risk.

Outcome 4:
Understanding how to recognize signs of disordered eating and how to manage these, both with the individual child and from a safeguarding perspective.

Outcome 5:
Identifying ways to promote positive relationships with food and body image as a whole-school community.