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A furious mum has blasted a posh independent school after the head teacher banned her recovering anorexic daughter from lessons – in case she inspired COPYCATS.

Lottie Twiselton, 16, developed severe anorexia when she was 14 and spent a year off school as she recovered in specialist London clinics.

Despite nearly dying from the disease, the pretty teenager battled back and was deemed well enough to return to £12,000-a-year Northampton High School last September.

But her family were stunned when head teacher Sarah Dixon refused to let Lottie come back saying her presence “would be too disruptive to the rest of the year group.”

Lottie has now enrolled at another school nearby and is studying for her GCSEs.

But mum Claire, a nurse from Northampton, has slammed her old school, accusing staff of failing her daughter and putting her long-term recovery in jeopardy.

Claire, 44, is married to Robert, 46, managing director of environmental recycling company The Green House, and they live in a £240,000 house in Northampton with Lottie and their other son Joseph, 11.

She said: “The head teacher was visibly shocked by a nasal tube Lottie had to wear and quickly ushered her into a room away from other girls.

“Without a doubt one of the main reasons Lottie was not allowed back to school because she was someone who lots of people looked up to.

“In the head teacher’s eyes, she may well have inspired copycat disorders.

“I find it unbelievable that a school can treat a mental health condition differently from a physical condition.

“I asked why students who have had cancer have been allowed back and I was told that was ‘completely different’.

“I’m afraid it’s not. We were told Lottie could come back when she no longer needs help. With anorexia, you can never be completely over it, so what they offered was impossible.”

Lottie’s illness started when she began dieting as a 14-year-old, but it spiralled out of control.

£12,000-a-year Northampton High School
£12,000-a-year Northampton High School

The determined teenager, who in Year 11 at Quinton House School in Northampton, said: “I felt abandoned by the school because they feared that other girls would follow her footsteps.

“When I was very sick and still at school I felt like I was being treated like an outsider, it was as if the school wanted me to keep my head down and pretend nothing was wrong.

“Nobody can understand how important the return to school is when you’re in recovery.

“My illness got worse and the school need to realise that it very nearly killed me.

“I was very upset about it. I almost died and without the support of my friends I would not have pulled through.

“I was completely ready to go back and be with them and just get back to normal but I was told the school weren’t able to have me back.

“It would have given me such a boost to my progress.

“It meant if I wanted to continue with a school education I had to go to a new school and make new friends.”

But Mrs Dixon denies Lottie was excluded.

She said: “The health and well being of our pupils is at the heart of everything we do.

“The school responded to say that they were very keen to support Lottie’s integration but remained of the view that it would be preferable to wait until Lottie was well enough to return on a full-time basis.”

Education lawyer John Ford said Lottie’s case is not unusual.

He said: “Schools circumnavigate safeguarding rules by using a child’s mental health problem to justify excluding them.

“A pupil with an eating disorder may be pushed out and excluded but schools won’t use that term.

“They’ll say ‘We don’t think we can meet you needs.’ But this is just de-facto exclusion.

Janet Walsh, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Priory Hospital said school could be an uncomfortable atmosphere but that an education was important for someone with anorexia.

She said: “There has to be a focus on something other than eating. If they are left isolated at home for too long it feeds into their obsession.”

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