Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the risk to children with eating disorders of learned behaviours when such children are placed in general units.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guideline for the recognition and treatment of eating disorder has been updated and is scheduled to be published in May 2017.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-cgwave0703

The draft clinical guideline on which NICE has consulted, emphasised that admissions should be made to an age appropriate facility, close to the young person’s home as possible and have the capacity to provide appropriate educational activities.