Lucy Bates Children's Occupational Therapist

25/11/2025

Any health or education professionals wanting to learn more about feeding this is the course for you…

24/11/2025

I will be joining in with this challenge as part of the The Feeding Trust team… please make a donation so we can support more children with feeding differences…

18/11/2025

I will be getting involved in this challenge as part of The Feeding Trust 12 days of Christmas challenge… follow me and make a donation!

06/11/2025

As part of team our article about PFD has been published today in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Nutrition… 🧐🥳 take a look at the feeding trust website for the poster and link to full article…

18/10/2025

Love this explanation of our upstairs and downstairs brain….

When a child’s upstairs brain (the thinking, reasoning part) is online, they can plan, problem-solve and make good choices.
When they’re in their downstairs brain (the survival part), logic goes out the window — they act on impulse, not intention.

Understanding this helps us respond with calm and connection, not punishment.

Visual taken from Emotions and My Brain activity pack. Link in comments or via Linktree in Bio.

10/10/2025

A great day in London chatting all things feeding and SEND…

Lucy Lucy Bates Children's Occupational Therapist and Charlotte Charlotte Sireshuk Children's Speech and Language Therapy went down to the TES SEND show in London today to chat all things Eating as Learning Curriculum. They met so many people who were really interested in training opportunities and implementing the curriculum into their schools. Watch this space for the next dates for our courses in 2026!

07/10/2025

Wow what a day!! Spent the day filming a new parent webinar programme with the The Feeding Trust team. Can’t wait to see the final edit and get this out to parents The Children's Dietitian

18/09/2025

Last chance to book on this workshop for health and education professionals wanting to know more about feeding…

09/09/2025

There is still time to book on this course… for anyone working across health and education wanting to know more about how to support children with feeding differences… come and join us…

05/09/2025

A crazy busy week but so worth it to be able to deliver this package into lots of schools across the country. Please get in touch if you would be interested in this amazing curriculum for your setting…

A very busy week here at The Feeding Trust launching our Eating as Learning curriculum package across the UK.

This week has seen over 700 education professionals being trained in how to support children with feeding differences in their settings. This is a really exciting start for these schools now going off to implement the Eating as Learning curriculum into their schools over the next 12 months.

We can’t wait to see the progress they are making in their ongoing mentoring sessions.

Thank you to Birmingham Food Legends and Tesco Stronger Starts for funding this project.

If you would like to find out how your setting could further support children with feeding differences we would love to hear from you. Drop us a message or email lucy@feedingtrust.org for more information on how you can get involved and make a real change.

03/09/2025

29/08/2025

We are big swifties in our house so love this photo going round at the moment…

So much love. 💚