CMH Law: Children’s Mental Health Law

Lawyers for Children’s Mental Health Service Providers

With over 20 years’ experience representing and advising children’s mental health agencies, as well as their leaders, directors and staff, we offer strategic and practical advice to help manage difficult situations with clients, staff, funders, partners and regulators. Whether that involves managing a privacy breach, advising on an issue of consent or capacity (e.g. in a custody dispute), updating or creating policies, responding to a request for records or a subpoena, we’ve got you covered.

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    Free of charge to all subscribers, each edition of this monthly webinar will focus on one topic in CMH Law and will answer a pre-submitted subscriber’s question.

  • The CMH Law Newsletter is designed for professionals working in children’s mental health organisations, including leadership teams, clinicians, managers, and directors. Each issue will provide clear, practical legal guidance addressing the real‑world challenges you face supporting children and families.

    Our newsletter will focus on emerging issues, risk management, and compliance. We understand the legal and regulatory environment unique to children’s mental health services.

    Topics include:

    • Responding to Complaints and Investigations

    • Privacy, Consent and Information‑Sharing

    • Policy Drafting and Reviews

    • Workplace and Staff‑Related Issues

    • Court, Tribunal, and Legal Proceedings

  • Our CMH Law lawyers have strong expertise in the children’s mental health sector. We help agencies, their leadership, their staff and their board of directors by:

    • Providing strategic and practical advice

    • Training staff, leaders and board members

    • Responding to complaints, inquiries, investigations and legal proceedings

    • Representing individual staff members in court or regulatory proceedings

    • Policy drafting or review

    • Our advice relates to any health law, legal or regulatory issue, including:

    • Privacy law compliance, policy development, privacy impact assessments and managing breaches

    • Consent, capacity, and substitute decision-making

    • Mental health legislation

    • Mandatory reporting

    • Managing requests for records

    • Responding to complaints, requests for information and data transfers

    • Managing difficult clients / families

    • Governance issues

    • The rights of children and their parents/caregivers in various circumstances

    • Funding issues

    • Contract drafting and reviews

    • Research

     We understand your challenges. We’re here to help.

  • Join our mailing list to receive newsletters with updates on children’s mental health law and to join our webinars.

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