Hi Matt. Any chance of seeing a pic of the bedhead?

Presumably it will have sockets and lights in it?

Is the clipped wiring going across between the two sides, the bit that concerns you or the wiring from the wall to the fittings in/on the bedhead?

Every installation needs to be designed see 132.1.

Regulation 132.7 requires the designer to consider external influences wiring methods.

What consideration, if any, was given by the  designer to putting T&E cable behind a bed head to impact damage?

For me supervising this job it would be you can remove that and replace it with ...........

JP

if the bedhead was something like this it might be acceptable.

Edit; Removed photo of nice hotel room, headboard with lights and sockets inset,  found on the web that might be subject to copyright. Also might be confusing with this stupid "reply to post" setup on this forum.

My thoughts entirely. It seems normal these days for the bed head to be a fitting on the wall and not part of the bed itself. The guests may cause the bed to move, but not the head board itself. Hopefully! 

See above picture of the bedhead, it is secured to the wall. 

I know that bedding and furniture material these days are subject to ignition testing, but looking at that photo, part of the material would be within the socket enclosure, and possibly subject to a different testing regime. That would concern me more than any wiring going behind the panels

Fair point, but is that any different from flaps of wallpaper tucked in behind an accessory?

depends who did it i suppose. Here it is designed. A decorator just does what is easiest for them. 

It doesn't seem that long ago we routinely (buckle) clipped T&E direct to surfaces - in most situations the sheath provides adequate mechanical protection to the basic insulation and often mini-trunking and the like is there purely for cosmetic reasons. We wouldn't object to exposed flex to bedside table lamps. If the bed-head is fixed to the wall and has sufficient space within it to contain the cables without crushing etc, I can't see that any further mechanical protection would be needed in what I presume is a pretty benign environment.

   - Andy.

I'd worry if it was in singles and perhaps if it was a soft sheathed flex, but T and E is hard plastic sheathed, I'm not sure to use it like this it is anything worse than a bit scruffy.  After all you'd not blink at T and E nailed up the wall in a garage between a light switch and the ceiling or would you?

Mike.