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Category: Health inequalities

New study explores links between children’s social care involvement and maternal deaths

Research published by Birth Companions, King's College London and University of Oxford
11 Jul 2025

Birth Companions’ response to the national maternity investigation

24 Jun 2025

Birth Companions' response to the 2025 Comprehensive Spending Review

12 Jun 2025

Birth Companions response: Reports of restraints used on women during and after labour

25 Feb 2025

Calls for independent investigation into use of restraints on pregnant women in prison custody

19 Feb 2025

MoJ apologises to mother subjected to racism and wrongly separated from her child on prison MBU

12 Feb 2025

Let Me Count the Ways: The role of the Voluntary and Community Sector in the Women’s Justice Board

14 Jan 2025

Birth Companions Community Care opinion piece on the latest MBRRACE-UK maternal deaths data

13 Jan 2025

Birth Companions response to MBRRACE-UK report: Perinatal deaths of babies born in 2022

12 Dec 2024

Birth Companions welcomes move to limit the use of prison custody for pregnant and postnatal women

Our response to the Sentencing Council's new mitigating factor for pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period
18 Mar 2024

New Birth Companions and Wen publication: Reproductive justice and the climate emergency in the UK

1 Feb 2024

Report shows maternal deaths at highest levels for 20 years

11 Jan 2024

Birth Companions’ response to the review of health and social care in women’s prisons

28 Nov 2023

Birth Companions' statement: The coroner’s decision on recommendations in the case of Aisha Cleary

14 Nov 2023

Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care 2023: Birth Companions' response to MBRRACE-UK report

12 Oct 2023

Birth Companions statement on deeply concerning increases in perinatal mortality rates across the UK

14 Sep 2023

Birth Companions’ statement on the conclusion in the inquest into the death of Aisha Cleary

28 Jul 2023

'Illegal' Migration Bill: The 72-hour time limit on the detention of pregnant women is maintained

11 Jul 2023

Birth Companions publishes new Birth Charter for women with involvement from children’s social care

4 Jul 2023

Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care 2022: Birth Companions' response to MBRRACE-UK report

10 Nov 2022

Systemic Racism, Not Broken Bodies - Birthrights' report and calls to action

23 May 2022

Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care: Birth Companions' response to the latest MBRRACE report

11 Nov 2021

Birth Companions’ response to the MBRRACE 2020 report on maternal deaths

14 Jan 2021
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