Shared insights: Managing children with complex needs in crisis
09 December 2025
This Shared Insights forum took place on 9 December 2025.
This session, led by Ed Pollard and Rebecca Fitzpatrick, provided delegates with an understanding of the legal frameworks and best practice when managing children with complex mental health and behavioural needs who are in crisis.
Delegates learned from real world experience and case studies, to illustrate how these legal frameworks should be applied in complex cases involving children in mental and behavioural health crisis on the frontline of health and social care.
Chaired by Rebecca Fitzpatrick, who heads Browne Jacobson’s health advisory and inquest team and sits as a First-Tier Mental Health Tribunal Judge, we heard insights from a panel of speakers:
- Professor Ralph Sandland and Dr Grace Carter, academics from the University of Nottingham’s School of Law and Co-Directors of the Centre for Mental Health and Human Rights.
- Dr Robyn McCarron, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Associate Clinical Director at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
- Chris Heydon, Deputy Chief Operating Officer at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
- Ed Pollard, Partner at Browne Jacobson.
Delegates had the opportunity to put questions to the panel and share learning and best practice.
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