10th March 2025: Lucy Barnes to speak at NAGALRO’s 2025 Spring Conference on neurodivergence in the family justice system
18 February 2025
Our pupil barrister Lucy Barnes will be speaking at NAGALRO’s 10th March 2025 conference 9:30-2pm titled: ‘NEURODIVERGENT CHILDREN: The cost of failing to recognise and respond to the challenges and barriers these children face in the Family Justice System.’ The conference follows the recent publication of the Family Justice Council’s best practice guidance about neurodiversity in the Family Justice System. Lucy will be honing her lived and professional experience to discuss the intersection between foster care, trauma and neurodiversity. Lucy will be speaking alongside an esteemed panel below:
Chair of the Conference: Conference Chair and Keynote Speaker:
Caroline Croft, Barrister Coram Chambers – Conference Chair and a founding member of FLANC (Family Law Advice for the Neurodivergent Community). Caroline will touch on key themes and issues and her contribution to the FJC guidance on neurodiversity in the Family Justice System.
Speakers and presentation titles:
- Dr Tom Grange (Psychologist, PsychD, HCPC – Clin. Psych, & Director of Dr Grange & Associates): ‘Different forms of neurodivergence in children and means of identification’
- Lucy Barnes (Pupil Barrister at East Anglian Chambers and Co-Founder/CEO of Lawyers Who Care – care experienced and neurodivergent lawyer): Foster care, adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) and Neurodivergence.
- Ravi Kaur Mahey (Director and Children Panel Member at Cartwright King Solicitors, neurodivergent lawyer and parent of a neurodivergent child): Needs not Diagnosis – How to identify, recognise and better understand neurodivergence and what we can do to secure better outcomes for children and adults in the social work and legal system.
- Sarah Langley (Chair of Cafcass Neurodiversity Network)
- Dr Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens: Understanding neurodivergent children in the social work, clinical and family justice system: What does good practice look like? How race and culture can feed into under recognition and underdiagnosis of neurodivergence in black children.
There will be a full panel discussion focusing on good practice around neurodivergence for social workers in the family justice system.
The Conference will attract 4 CPD hours and be of interest to all within the family justice system.
If you would like to attend, please download the application form on NAGALRO’s website: https://www.nagalro.com/events/32/nagalro_spring_2025_online_conference
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