Care that adapts to every child — and amplifies your clinical impact
A digital care platform for children and young people's eating disorder services. Each programme adapts to the child's diagnosis and to how their brain works — neurotypical, autistic, or with ADHD. Dual apps support patient and carer between sessions; one dashboard shows your team who's progressing and who needs attention.
One view of every patient and carer between sessions — and the first sign when something changes.
Demand has outgrown the pathway
Referrals rising, waits lengthening, and families deteriorating in the gap between referral and first appointment — and between each session. Carers asked to lead refeeding at home with an hour of support a week. ARFID arriving everywhere, in a system that wasn't commissioned for it. And more of the children in front of you are autistic or have ADHD, yet most programmes were built for neurotypical minds.
of referrals now relate to ARFID in some children's eating disorder services — often with no commissioned pathway to receive them.
of young people with anorexia may also be autistic. Standard programmes rarely adapt for them.
people in the UK estimated to be living with an eating disorder (Beat).
in a family's week. Most treatment touches one of them. Univa is built for the other 167.
One platform, across the whole pathway
Univa extends your service's reach without extending its headcount. From the moment of referral, each family receives programmes matched to their presentation — and adapted to the child in front of you. Patient and carer each get their own connected app. Your team sees it all on one dashboard.
Personalised by diagnosis, and by brain
Programmes matched to the presentation, not the average — then adapted to how each child thinks. FT-AN-based care for anorexia, CBT-ED, carer-led ARFID care, early intervention, and step-down after inpatient care. Every programme flexes for neurodiverse needs — sensory needs, rigid thinking and mealtime anxiety are designed in, not bolted on.
Evidence-based models
Built on FT-AN/FBT — NICE's first-line recommendation for children and young people with anorexia — alongside CBT-ED and the New Maudsley carer skills approach, co-created with clinicians and families with lived experience.
A care team that never clocks off
Between your sessions, a multidisciplinary care team inside the app — therapist, psychiatrist, dietitian, peer, carer and wellbeing guides — walks families through each module, prompts daily check-ins, steadies the meal panic, and flags to your team when something isn't right. Therapy started in your clinic keeps working at the kitchen table.
Progress you can see, risk you can catch early
Integrated daily and weekly measures, engagement data for patient and carer, and digital markers that surface early signs of deterioration — so your team can act before a crisis, not after. One dashboard, continuity of data from referral to discharge, and clinical decision support for the next step.
Built for neurodivergent minds, not just neurotypical ones
Autism and ADHD change how an eating difficulty shows up and what helps. Rigid routines, sensory sensitivity, interoception and anxiety all shape a mealtime, and a programme built for a neurotypical child can miss them entirely.
Univa adapts. You design the care programme for each child — their diagnosis, their neurodevelopmental profile, and what drives their eating difficulty. Then the programme flexes to fit: how information is presented, the pace of change, the way food is reintroduced, and the carer skills alongside. Same clinical evidence base — tuned to the child in front of you.
ARFID provision, without building a service from scratch
ARFID is the gap in most pathways: national guidance now expects CEDS provision, referrals keep rising, and few scalable early interventions exist. Univa's ARFID care programme gives your service one.
A needs-based assessment (PARDI-AR-Q) identifies what drives each child's avoidance. A 10-week core programme then adapts to that profile and to neurodevelopmental needs, with a personalised food-exposure engine, automatic nutritional-deficiency profiling, and FBT-AR, CBT-AR and New Maudsley carer skills throughout. Nine months of continued support follow, at the family's pace.
Built for the direction the NHS is already going
The NHS 10-Year Plan asks services to move from hospital to community, from treatment to prevention, and from analogue to digital. NHS England's 2026 guidance for children and young people's eating disorder services asks for early intervention, integrated pathways, support for families and carers, and appropriate use of digital tools.
Univa was designed against exactly these asks: care that begins before crisis, carers supported in their own right, community-based delivery, adaptation for neurodevelopmental needs, and data that follows the patient across the pathway.
Clinical safety and information governance, as standard
How services deploy Univa
We map Univa's programmes to your pathway — early intervention, waiting-list support, adjunct to treatment, ARFID provision, admission avoidance, post-inpatient step-down, or a standalone digital intervention.
Your clinicians get the dashboard; your families start easily. Onboarding for a typical team is simple.
Engagement and progress data from week one to inform your clinical decisions and caseload management.
See it with your own patients in mind
Bring a service lead and a clinician. We'll show you the platform, the programmes and the dashboard — including how care adapts for autism and ADHD — and map it to your pathway in one 45-minute session.