Andrew Briggs is Head of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Sussex Partnership NHS Trust, and an organizational consultant with many years experience working with senior managers and teams within public sector and not-for-profit organizations delivering services to adopted and children in care. He is a visiting lecturer to Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation Trust for courses on public sector leadership and management, and was a former Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Kent Institute for Medical and Health Studies,