- NHS mental health service
Becton Centre for Children and Young People
Assessment report published 29 April 2026
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
The Becton Centre for Children and Young People is part of Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trusts. It is a multi functional site, based in Sheffield, with inpatient child and adolescent mental health wards, day services, community child and adolescent mental health service, a 0-19 Service, specialist safeguarding teams and hosts the South Yorkshire Provider Collaborative. The service had 3 inpatient child and adolescent mental health wards; Emerald Lodge, Sapphire Lodge and Ruby Lodge.
We undertook the assessment of The Becton Centre for Children and Young People child and adolescent mental health wards on 16 and 17 December 2025. We assessed all 33 quality statements across the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions. The service has previously been inspected in November and December 2024 and received a rating of Good. At the last inspection the service had 2 breaches of regulation, the service had made the necessary improvements and was no longer in breach. We now rate the service as Good.
Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act Compliance Summary
During our assessment we reviewed the service’s compliance with both the Mental Health Act (MHA) and the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). Staff demonstrated a good understanding of the MHA and its Code of Practice, applying it confidently when admitting and managing detained patients to ensure care remained lawful and patients’ rights were respected.
People's experience of this service
For this assessment we spoke with 1 patient, 7 carers and observed care and treatment.
Carers felt confident that their relatives were receiving the right support and that they were involved in the care and treatment decisions. Staff were described as ‘fantastic’, ‘great’ and ‘caring’.