Running from 9-15 May, Awareness Week 2023 is about creating new opportunities for earlier diagnosis of coeliac disease in children.

The impact of undiagnosed coeliac disease on children is huge. By highlighting the main symptoms of coeliac disease in children, we hope to empower parents to take action, so that we can find the half a million people living with undiagnosed coeliac disease in the UK.

We’re urging parents who recognise symptoms in their child to take an online assessment, which will provide them with a result that they can take to their GP, and use to talk about getting their child tested for coeliac disease.

For several years, the theme for Coeliac Awareness Week has been 'The Gluten Free Challenge' in which people are encouraged to eat gluten free for a week.

The aim is to encourage people to think about how foods which contain gluten can affect people with coeliac disease. This challenge also aims to highlight difficulties people with coeliac disease may have when trying to maintain a gluten free diet.