Healthcare Professional Membership Agreement

By joining the FED professional membership platform, the member agrees to the following terms.

1. Membership and platform access

Professional membership provides access to resources, learning opportunities and professional community activities made available through the FED membership platform during the active membership period.

Depending on the membership offer, this may include:

• Eating as Learning (EaL) Framework materials and guidance
• professional learning and training resources
• practical tools, resources and downloadable materials
• implementation and practice guidance
• webinars, events and continuing professional development opportunities
• professional community discussions and shared learning
• access to Experts at Hand and other specialist input
• new and updated resources added during the membership period.

Membership is for the individual registered professional. Login details must be kept secure and must not be shared with colleagues or other individuals.

2. Using FED and Eating as Learning resources

All Eating as Learning materials and other FED resources remain the intellectual property of The FED Foundation unless otherwise stated.

Membership gives the individual professional a limited, non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to use these resources within their own professional practice.

Members may download, print and reproduce resources where reasonably required for their own professional use, including use with children, young people, families or colleagues whom they directly support, where the individual resource is intended for that purpose.

Without written permission from The FED Foundation, resources must not be:

• shared with other professionals for their independent use
• uploaded to another website, platform, shared drive or resource library
• published, sold, sublicensed or commercially distributed
• substantially altered in a way that misrepresents the original resource
• incorporated into another organisation's training programme or commercial product
• used to create or deliver a competing training programme, framework or commercial service
• presented as the member's own intellectual property.

FED branding and copyright information should remain on materials where provided.

3. Professional use of the Framework

The Eating as Learning Framework is intended to support understanding of feeding development and inform evidence-grounded professional practice.

Members remain responsible for their own professional decisions and for working within their scope of practice, professional competence, organisational policies and the requirements of any relevant regulator or professional body.

Access to the Framework, resources or professional community does not confer a clinical qualification or authorise a member to undertake assessment, intervention or activities outside their professional scope of practice.

FED resources should not replace individual assessment, safeguarding procedures or referral to appropriate specialist services where these are required.

4. Information, confidentiality and data protection

Members must protect the privacy and confidentiality of the children, young people, families, colleagues and organisations they work with.

Identifiable information about individual children, young people, families or clients must not be posted within community discussions or other shared areas of the platform.

Where members discuss a professional situation or case for the purposes of shared learning, information should be sufficiently anonymised so that the individual, family, professional or setting cannot reasonably be identified.

Members remain responsible for meeting their own professional, organisational and data protection responsibilities when using the platform.

5. Professional community participation

The professional community exists to support learning, discussion, collaboration and the exchange of professional experience.

Members are expected to:

• communicate respectfully and professionally
• recognise differences in professional roles, experience and perspectives
• maintain appropriate professional and safeguarding boundaries
• respect the confidentiality of discussions within closed community areas
• avoid presenting general community discussion as individual clinical advice
• not copy, publish or circulate another member's contribution outside the platform without appropriate permission.

Members must not use the community primarily to advertise, solicit business or promote unrelated commercial products or services unless expressly permitted by The FED Foundation.

The Foundation may moderate or remove content, or restrict community access, where necessary to protect members, maintain professional standards or safeguard the purpose of the community.

6. Membership, renewal and access

Membership runs for the period stated when the member joins or renews.

When membership ends, access to the platform, community and members-only resources will cease.

Resources that have been lawfully downloaded and are expressly provided for ongoing professional use may continue to be used by the member in accordance with the intellectual property terms above.

Access to the membership resource library, updated resources, community, events and other membership benefits requires active membership.

The FED Foundation may suspend or withdraw access where there is a serious safeguarding, security, conduct, payment or intellectual property concern.

7. Changes to resources and membership

The Eating as Learning Framework and associated resources may develop as research, professional knowledge and FED's work evolve.

The FED Foundation may therefore update resources, platform features and the professional membership offer over time.

Significant changes to these membership terms will be communicated to members.

8. Agreement

By selecting “I agree” and creating a professional membership, the member confirms that they:

• have read and accept these Professional Membership Terms
• will use FED and Eating as Learning materials in accordance with the licence above
• will respect confidentiality and professional boundaries when participating in the community.

Agreement version: October 2026

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