Rebecca Keating, a clinical director at the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, explained how the Becton Centre at Sheffield Children’s Hospital was chosen for Mia’s admission because it was one of the few units that accepted patients under 13 years old.
However, it did not have a bed available until 9 January, when she was transferred.
The coroner told the jury of seven women and five men that she wanted them to think about three things over the 10 days of the hearing.
She said the first was “Mia’s mental health history, including the cause of her behaviour”.
The second was the placement of Mia at the Becton Centre, and the third was the care she received at that centre “including risk assessments around self harm”.
During the first day of the inquest, Mia’s mother, Chloe Hayes, sat in the public gallery listening to proceedings with a number of members of her family.
Ms Hayes has previously described how Mia was interested in singing, drawing, crafts and horse riding, and how she had ambitions to open a beauty salon or become a vet.
The inquest continues.
