Topic

Children's social care

Find out more about our work focusing on children's social care involvement in pregnancy and the first two years of a child's life.

Browse recent reports, campaigns and events.

Articles

Perspective

Reflections on our recent children’s social care conference

Children’s social care involvement in the first 1001 days: Changing hearts and minds
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Report

Understanding women’s lived experience of children’s social care proceedings

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

Co-designing a new support service for women who are experiencing or at risk of the removal of their baby at birth by children’s social care

Report on the co-design of a new Birth Companions support service, to be piloted in the London Borough of Hackney
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Working with women affected by children’s social care involvement in pregnancy and early motherhood

Insights from recent Birth Companions work
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Spotlight: Dual Contact

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

Setting out how services and systems should support women involved with children’s social care from conception to their child’s second birthday
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Spotlight: Children's social care involvement and maternal mortality

Understanding the circumstances, experiences and outcomes of women with children’s social care involvement who die during pregnancy or the year after
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The Lost Mothers Project

Focusing on the needs and experiences of women who are separated from their infants due to imprisonment

Campaigns and programmes

Programme

Coordinated national policy on children’s social care involvement in the 1001 days

Co-designing a national health and social care pathway for women who are at risk of or experiencing separation from their baby
Campaign

Taking a Strand

Campaigning for an end to the overreliance on hair strand drug tests in the family courts

Events

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