Children's social care

Birth Companions welcomes the judiciary's consultation on a new Newborn Baby Protocol. This is a move we have long called for, and one that reflects principles at the heart of our Birth Charter and the National Integrated Care Framework we’re currently developing.

This week's national review into the death of baby Victoria exposes devastating gaps in support for parents before and after child removal – and calls for exactly the solution we're building.

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.

Reflections on our recent children’s social care conference.

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 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

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

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

Co-designing a national integrated care framework for women and babies with children's social care involvement in the first 1001 days

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