NEW: Covid-10 and Eating Disorder Experiences

5 May 2020 The current Coronavirus situation is unprecedented. It is causing a huge change in society, creating uncertainty, anxiety, and disruption to normal lives and normal routines. For people with an eating disorder, this disruption may bring about extra challenges that may be difficult to deal with on top of everything else. Quite often, living with an eating disorder already brings fear and panic, and the current situation has the potential to intensify this. The CAPS Eating Disorder collective advocacy group, Seen But Not Heard, have put together some information on their experience of living in these extraordinary times, and addressed some concerns that people living with an eating disorder may have.

Download Covid-19 – Eating Disorder Experiences CAPS 2020

Coronavirus – latest service updates

The Individual Advocacy staff for East Lothian and Midlothian are working from home and regularly checking telephone messages so please get in touch with us on 0131 273 5118 if you need advocacy support. While we are unable to attend appointments face to face at the moment, we can arrange a telephone appointment with you and will try to assist you remotely as much as possible.

If you have an upcoming PIP telephone assessment and would like advocacy, an advocacy worker can take part in the assessment call as well to help you get all the information across that you want to. Please get in touch with us in advance and we will make you a telephone appointment with one of our advocacy workers to discuss.

Collective advocacy

We are holding collective advocacy meetings online now.  You can get in touch with the collective advocacy workers directly on

• Ele – ele@capsadvocacy.org 07948 740 158 
• Fingal – fingal@capsadvocacy.org 07989 402 612
• Kirsten – kirsten@capsadvocacy.org 07910 983 030
• Niamh – niamh@capsadvocacy.org  
• Pam – pam@capsadvocacy.org 07989 402 634
• Victoria – victoria@capsadvocacy.org 07436 102 762 
• Anne – anne@capsadvocacy.org 07469 660 999 

All LEARN courses have been cancelled. You can get in touch with us by email learn@capsadvocacy.org 

RECRUITMENT: May 2020 We are recruiting a new Collective Advocacy Worker, please see Paid Posts for details.

EVALUATION of Collective Advocacy groups: March 2020 See News & Events page for details.

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CAPS Independent Advocacy is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Scottish Charity number: SC021772