Effective and compassionate practice in pre-birth work
Effective and compassionate practice in pre-birth work
Effective and compassionate practice in pre-birth work
Join a workshop that aims to support practitioners and practice leads working with parents during the pre-birth period where safeguarding concerns are present.
The separation of a baby from its mother at birth is hugely traumatic for parents. This decision can have significant lifelong consequences for both infant and parents.
Wherever it is safe to do so, families must be given meaningful and timely opportunities – and the right support – to make changes that could enable them to stay together. Where separation is necessary, it also considers what we can do in our practice to minimise trauma for all involved.
This workshop will focus on trauma-responsive, timely, and transparent practice. Participants will explore how compassionate, skilled engagement with parents can reduce the need for care proceedings and prevent the separation of babies from their families.
The session will highlight:
• The value of early support.
• How trauma impacts how parents present and respond
• How to build trusting, collaborative relationships with mothers and fathers.
• The role of the wider family and kinship network in supporting parents to keep their babies.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:
- Recognise the perspectives of parents with lived experience of pre-birth assessment.
- Understand the importance of providing help and support early.
- Consider how trauma impacts parents and what trauma-responsive practice looks like.
- Gain confidence around building trusting, collaborative relationships with parents.
- Explore how the wider kin network can be drawn on to support good outcomes.
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Audience Types
Practitioners
Principal Social Worker (PSW)
Senior practitioners
Social workers
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 | Purposeful and effective social work
CQC - Effective | Caring
PCF - Values and ethics | Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Intervention and skills
Pre-birth: Change Project
Interactive resources designed to enhance pre-birth services and improve outcomes for infants and parents by driving policy and practice development. These tools are valuable for senior managers, strategic leads, commissioners, and professionals in social care, health, and midwifery services.
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
Supporting maternal mental health in pre-birth work
Many women involved in pre-birth work have significant mental health needs, often linked to past trauma. These videos highlight the importance of trauma-informed practice in pre-birth work.