Translation
We are interested in the FEEDS Toolkit being translated into languages other than English, so that the materials are made widely available to support interventions that can improve eating, drinking, and swallowing. If you are interested in translating the FEEDS Toolkit please note the following requirements:
- A contract is required between Newcastle University and your employing organisation (such as university/academic centre, clinical service) to undertake the definitive translation of the FEEDS Toolkit into the official spoken and written language of your country.
- We require the person or people undertaking the translation to have experience and knowledge in identifying and managing eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties in children with neurological or neurodevelopmental conditions or be working with a team that has such experience and knowledge: clinical and/or research experience or other expertise in eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties, experience of making recommendations about how best young people can receive fluid and food safely and efficiently, neurodevelopmental conditions, and experience of using the FEEDS Toolkit. Ideally, they should have been involved in translation of other measures, but this is not a requirement.
- Once a contract is in place, the process of translation can begin:
- Your organisation would arrange for the FEEDS Toolkit to be translated into the official language of your choosing.
- Your organisation would arrange for a separate person to undertake an independent back translation into English.
- You would then send the back translation to the Newcastle University FEEDS team.
- The Newcastle FEEDS team would check the back translation against the original published English version of the FEEDS Toolkit and associated documents for accuracy. The FEEDS team would specify any changes required to the translation in an email to you.
- The translating team would revise the translation and back translation.
- The revised back translation would be reviewed again by the Newcastle FEEDS team.
- This collaborative translation process will be completed when all queries have been resolved.
- The translated version will be owned by Newcastle University and protected by Copyright. The translation team will be acknowledged in the translated version: © Copyright Newcastle University [YEAR]; Translation of the FEEDS Toolkit from English to [your language] was undertaken in collaboration with [your organisation]

Requirements for people wanting to become a FEEDS Toolkit trainer

We are interested in training others to deliver FEEDS Toolkit training, so that the materials are made widely available to support interventions that can improve eating, drinking, and swallowing. The requirements for becoming a FEEDS Toolkit trainer, and details about the process of becoming a trainer are listed below:
- To run courses effectively, a minimum of two trainers are required per country. A contract with one of the employing organisations (such as university/ academic centre, clinical service) is needed with Newcastle University around running future courses.
- Those interested in becoming a FEEDS Toolkit trainer should send a 2-page CV to the FEEDS team based at Newcastle University, outlining their clinical and/or research experience, expertise in identifying and managing eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties in children with neurological or neurodevelopmental conditions, making recommendations about how best young people can receive fluid and food safely and efficiently, neurodevelopmental conditions, information about what other measures they have trained on/used previously, experience of training and teaching, and experience of using the FEEDS Toolkit.
- Once contracting is complete, there is then a process of training. First, this involves being trained on the FEEDS Toolkit and using the FEEDS Toolkit in a clinical/research setting. Second is attending a Training the FEEDS Toolkit Trainer course. The details of this course depend on the experience and circumstances of the trainee trainers, but training is completed in one or two half day sessions and could be online or face to face. Once training is complete, the trainee trainers will co-deliver courses led by qualified FEEDS Toolkit trainers, or deliver courses observed by the UK team (with translation provided for the UK team if that is required). The number of training courses that are co-delivered or observed will typically be 1-2 courses and then the trainer will be certified to train people without the Newcastle FEEDS team and run their own courses. Training will cease if the individual has not reached the required standard after 4 courses, and the trainee trainer will not be certified.

- The FEEDS Toolkit training programme is designed to be low cost regardless of who organises and undertakes the training and where the training course is taking place. Delegates are then provided with materials free of charge for their own clinical/research work. Organisations undertaking FEEDS Toolkit training are also required to follow this principle. Organisations are able to recover their costs associated with translation, and of training as trainers, and expenses associated with running the FEEDS Toolkit online/face to face courses but FEEDS Toolkit trainers and/or their employing organisation are not permitted to make a profit on the course. Costs for delegates should be in line with those for the UK courses (or cost less) and agreed with the FEEDS team at Newcastle. In order to support further FEEDS Toolkit development and evaluation, revenue sharing arrangements will be made between Newcastle University and trainer organisations, so a proportion of the funds from a course will be received by Newcastle University – the details of this will be outlined in the contract.