Learning from the Pre-birth Change Project
Learning from the Pre-birth Change Project
Delivered online using Teams
12:00 - 13:30 Monday, 20 January 2025
This webinar, led by Claire Mason (Research Fellow at The Centre for Child and Family Justice Research, Lancaster University), presents new learning, resources and tools from the Pre-Birth Change Project to help managers, leads, commissioners and practitioners to develop their pre-birth services and practice, and achieve better outcomes for infants and their parents.
The Pre-birth Change Project brought together academics, practitioners and leaders in children’s social care to discuss policies and practices related to pre-birth work. The Change Project aimed to support change in local areas by learning from cutting edge research and innovative practice which focuses on improving the chances of keeping mothers and babies together whenever possible and ensuring that mothers receive compassionate and safe care when separation is unavoidable.
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Audience Types
Practitioners
Principal Social Worker (PSW)
Senior practitioners
Social workers
Team leaders
Strategic leads
Commissioners
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Relationships and effective direct work | Child and family assessment | Analysis, decision-making, planning and review | Promote and govern excellent practice | Developing excellent practitioners | Shaping and influencing the practice system | Confident analysis and decision-making | Purposeful and effective social work | Lead and govern excellent practice | Creating a context for excellent practice | Designing a system to support effective practice | Developing excellent practitioners | Support effective decision-making | Quality assurance and improvement
CQC - Safe | Effective | Caring | Responsive | Well-led
PCF - Values and ethics | Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Knowledge | Critical reflection and analysis | Intervention and skills | Contexts and organisations | Professional leadership
Pre-birth assessment: Strategic Briefing (2020)
We know that infants are particularly vulnerable, needing care and protection in timeframes consistent with developmental needs. We also know that the perinatal period is a crucial time for development and a good opportunity to harness the desire of parents to be good parents to their expected child. Pre-birth assessment practice varies widely; this briefing is for strategic leads with responsibility for pre-birth assessment activities in child and family social care, health services and midwife
Working with recurrent care-experienced birth mothers: Resource Pack (2019)
In 2017, a team at Lancaster University published the final report of a Nuffield-funded research study into Vulnerable Birth Mothers and Recurrent Care Proceedings (Broadhurst et al, 2017). The Lancaster team, Research in Practice and colleagues from the University of Essex wanted to collaborate to support the use of the research findings to inform more effective ways of working with this population.
Working with recurrent care-experienced birth mothers: Online Resources
Social workers, lawyers and judges have long been aware that some women return to court as respondents in care proceedings after having already experienced the removal of one or more children in previous proceedings. These resources bring together material from a Change Project with information, reflections and practice examples provided by those participating.