Lucy is our Clinical Director and our Lead Feeding Therapist. She graduated in 2005 with a Bsc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy. Lucy has worked at The Feeding Trust since its conception and has loved being part of the interdisciplinary feeding team and watching the Feeding Trust grow. Lucy has a passion for working with children and young people with feeding difficulties and has completed the foundation SOS training as well as advanced modules in a variety of topic areas. She also has post graduate training in Sensory Integration and is an Accredited SI practitioner. Lucy has over 15 years of experience specialising in Paediatrics and Neurology and has worked across NHS and independent settings including Birmingham Children’s Hospital, mainstream and specialist schools, community clinics and client’s homes. Alongside her work at the Feeding Trust she also has her own independent company Lucy Bates Children’s OT Collective.