Dr Chidambaram Prakash is the Director of Mental Health at The Royal Children's Hospital. Prakash is a child and adolescent psychiatrist of 25 years' experience with special interests in neurodevelopmental disorders, neuropsychiatry, acute and consultation psychiatry. Prakash is leading a reform process in RCH Mental Health to modernise the risk management system and extend risk assessments beyond suicide, self-harm and aggression to include developmental and psychosocial risks. This will have wide reaching impact on mental health and behavioural risk assessments in clinical practice across RCH.