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Welcome to the On Demand Video Box Set of the Safer Beginnings Conference for Service Users and Charities.

Improving maternal outcomes, and addressing the safety of women and their babies, is one of the most important challenges facing maternity systems today.

There is a great need for care to be trauma-informed – assessing every person as potentially carrying trauma and ensuring that their needs are understood. Trauma-informed care can help prevent violence and harm, and ensure the physical and emotional safety of pregnant women and birthing people.

Through the Safer Beginnings programme 18 delivery partners have co-produced new resources on the impact of violence, trauma and harm in maternity. These resources support health care professionals and people in their care to increase their knowledge, to access support, and to advocate for themselves.

Purpose of this Box Set:

These presentations:

• Highlight the ways in which trauma and harm can impact during the maternity period;
• Explore what it means to have self-agency in relation to safety from violence and harm;
• Share new resources for parents, community practitioners and healthcare professionals

Outcomes:

• To introduce a range of culturally appropriate tools and resources which enable people to have self agency in relation to safety from violence and harm.
• To have explored a broad scope of ways in which violence and harm show up in maternity and the early years and how to recognise when something isn’t right in your own relationship or setting and know what to do about it.
• To have a better understanding of how to support emotional safety during pregnancy, birth and the early years.

Safer Beginnings Conference for Service Users and Charities

10:00 – 10:05 | Welcome and Housekeeping
MC – Sandra Igwe, The Motherhood Group

10:05 – 10:15 | Connection Activity
Dr Emma Svanberg, Clinical Psychologist

10:15 – 10:25 | Introduction of Safer Beginnings
Kay King, Movement Director, White Ribbon Alliance

10:25 – 10:35 | Story Sharing – Insights and Lived Experience
Valerie Lolomari, Lived Experience Guest
Christina Brown, Motivational Mum’s Club
Sandra Igwe, The Motherhood Group

10:35 – 11:05 | Baby Buddy: Safer Beginnings Film Screening from Best Beginnings
Nicola Cadbury, Best Beginnings
Christina Brown, Motivational Mum’s Club

11:05 – 11:20 | What Do We Mean By Self-Agency?
Rachael Buabeng, Mummy’s Day Out
Samantha Gadsden, They Said to Me
Elliott Rae, Music, Football and Fatherhood

11:15 – 11:20 | Break Out Session Instructions
Sandra Igwe, The Motherhood Group

11:20 – 11:40 | Break

Breakout sessions

BREAKOUT STREAM 1 – WATCH HERE

11:40 – 12:25 | Free from Harm
Amity Reed, White Ribbon Alliance
Joanna Goodrich, The Point of Care Foundation

12:30 – 13:15 | Emotional Safety Plan
Nicole Thangarajah, For Baby’s Sake
Judith Rees, For Baby’s Sake

BREAKOUT STREAM 2 – WATCH HERE

11:40 – 13:15 | Baby Buddy and Safer Beginnings films
Clare Lyons-Collins, Best Beginnings
Nicola Cadbury, Best Beginnings
Leila Khatouri, Best Beginnings
Arya Pimprikar, Best Beginnings

13:15 – 14:00 | Lunch

14:00 – 14:25 | What’s Working Well: Models Of Best Practice
Joy Clarke, Specialist FGM Midwife
Amanda Smith, Maternity Engagement Action
Gill Thomson, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)

14:25 – 14:50 | Q & A from conference participants
Safer Beginnings Delivery Partners

14:50 – 14:55 | Closing and Thank You
MC – Sandra Igwe, The Motherhood Group

14:55 – 15:00 | Going Back Out Into The World
Dr Emma Svanberg, Clinical Psychologist

15:00 | End of live stream

Please click on a speaker to read their biography.

Purpose of the Conference:

To raise awareness of the ways in which violence and harm impact on maternity and early years, and to explore what it means to have self agency in relation to safety from violence and harm.

If you are experiencing any issues and would like to speak to us please contact Paul Rushworth on +44 (0)7709 145 234 or email paul@narrowcastmedia.co.uk.

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