Welcome to PEACE!

As a PEACE team, we aim to equip professionals, working across a range of sectors, in supporting autistic young people with eating disorders and their families.

If you are looking at this page, you may be a professional working in a school, a GP practice, community health services, a charity, or mental health services.

We know from other professionals working across these sectors that finding information, specialist support, or advice is not always easy, and we hope that this page is a place where you can get some answers.

This page has some information about autism, eating difficulties and the overlap between the two. It also explains some of the difficulties that autistic individuals with an eating disorder may experience. Young people and parents have shared their stories. You may recognise aspects of what they are saying in the people you work with.