SEED -Eating Disorder Support
SEED was founded in 2000 in Hull, East Yorkshire by Marg Oaten MBE and Dennis Oaten with the aim to increase awareness of eating disorders and provide more support to those who are in need.
We are a registered charity comprising a group of people with first-hand experience of eating disorders. The work that we do is focused on early intervention, prevention, awareness and providing support to those suffering or those caring for someone with an eating disorder.
Eating disorders are serious mental and physical illnesses that can affect people irrespective of gender, age, body shape or weight. If left untreated they can result in serious medical problems.
In fact, eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental health illnesses – with 1 in 5 sufferers dying as a result.
It’s estimated that over 1.6 million people in the UK are directly affected – but, in reality, this figure is likely to be much higher.
In 2019 we launched our Eating Disorder Educational Toolkit – a valuable, easy to use resource developed specifically to enable schools to teach responsibly, confidently, and sympathetically about eating disorders, body image and well‑being.
The Toolkit covers a range of interventions and approaches to enable young people to improve their emotional wellbeing and deal with the underlying issues causing the eating disorder and not using an eating disorder as a way of ‘control’
The DfE’s statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) states that eating disorders are a specialised area and schools should use qualified support or advice. In fact, although eating disorders are all too common, they are frequently misunderstood.
Separate versions for Primary and Secondary schools have been created to ensure content is relevant as well as being age and subject specific.
Priced at only £ 295 per annum for Primary & £ 395 for Secondary schools, the toolkits cover a range of interventions and approaches to enable young people in Key Stages 2, 3 and 4 to improve their emotional wellbeing and deal with the underlying issues causing the eating disorders and not using an eating disorder as a way of ‘control’.
Sarah Mulindwa - Presenter & Specialist Nurse
Eating disorders can affect people from all ages, races, genders and backgrounds at any age. The worrying increase in eating disorder diagnosis mean that this toolkit is essential to school curriculum as an educational easy-to-access resource which will enable schools to empathetically and responsibly support and educate young people on issues such as body image and well-being”
“An increase of societal and online pressures has heavily contributed to a surge of eating disorder diagnosis. Now more than ever it is essential that the school curriculum is tailored to the needs of young people and the challenges they face”
I also urge you to watch a brief video overview of the toolkit by clicking on: https://toolkit.seedeatingdisorders.org.uk/trailer2020.mp4
User Quotes
“I am buzzing about this toolkit, it is fantastic and I have already trained 4 members of staff to use this in their school. I can’t praise it enough.”
John McBride, Chair of Governors Sandwell Community School
“I highly recommend this resource. I have used it for years 9, 10, and 11. All pupils and myself found the package to be very educational. The pupils were very positive and it led to lots of discussion. It depicted the subjects of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa in an informative and straightforward way that the pupils could understand.”
Kerry Whitfield, Newland School for Girls
To learn more, register your interest via https://toolkit.seedeatingdisorders.org.uk/
Or contact us at toolkit@seed.charity