The Ethics Toolkit is a series within Essential Ethics designed to give clinicians a clear understanding of the tools that bioethicists use to think through complex problems. In this episode we explore the ethical foundations of child and family centred care. The conversation considers the obligations of healthcare providers to involve patients and families in their own healthcare and in designing healthcare systems. Host, Prof John Massie, is joined by: Prof Catherine Crock AM, physician at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne (RCH), Co-founder of the Hush Foundation and Gathering of Kindness; and Prof Lynn Gillam, Academic Director of the RCH Children’s Bioethics Centre and Professor, University of Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.