Our news and publications

The Sentencing Bill has received Royal Assent, marking a significant moment in Birth Companions' long campaign to end the imprisonment of pregnant women and mothers of infants.

Film screening and panel discussion with MPs, filmmakers and women with lived experience calls for urgent systems change and trauma-informed support.

Film screening and panel discussion on maternal imprisonment and children’s social care reform, with MPs and filmmakers, just a few days before it goes onto BBC iPlayer.

We are thrilled to announce that Tanya Tracey, previously our Criminal Justice Services Manager, has this month taken on the role of Director of Services.

After an extraordinary 30 years, Denise Marshall, our Director of Services, is retiring this month.

Significant core costs funding over the next three years will allow the Birth Companions Institute to deepen and expand our work to achieve better care, equity and justice for pregnant women, mothers and babies.

We are thrilled to welcome Leah Hazard, midwife, author and women’s health advocate, as Birth Companions new Ambassador.

The annual Impact Report from Birth Companions

Double your donation this week, 8-15 October 2025.

We are delighted to welcome Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti as Birth Companions' new Ambassador.

A new centre of expertise for better care, equity and justice in pregnancy and early motherhood

We are proud to welcome Dr Annabel Sowemimo as Birth Companions’ new ambassador.

An insight report from Birth Companions' project with the Maternity Consortium

Report on the co-design of a new Birth Companions support service, to be piloted in the London Borough of Hackney

Insights from recent Birth Companions work

Understanding the needs and experiences of pregnant women and new mothers in contact with the criminal justice system in the community in England.

Creating a criminal justice system that works for women

A Feminist Green New Deal report from Birth Companions and Wen

Understanding the needs and experiences of women in contact with the criminal justice and children’s social care systems during pregnancy and early motherhood

Setting out how services and systems should support women involved with children’s social care from conception to their child’s second birthday