Webinar: Giving HOPE and minimising trauma when the state intervenes at birth

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In this session Claire Mason and Kate Chivers will discuss Giving HOPE, a co-production project which aims to improve practice and minimise trauma when the state intervenes at birth due to safeguarding concerns.  Claire and Kate will provide an overview of the underpinning research and the HOPE Boxes, the innovation now being implemented across the country to support more trauma-informed and compassionate care. 

Kate and Claire will be joined by two members of the lived experience group ‘The HOPE Mothers’ who will give their perspectives on the project and their involvement.

Kate and Claire would also like to start a discussion with practitioners in the parent-infant field about future developments in the project, including incorporating the perspective of the baby.

Claire Mason is a Research Fellow at The Centre for Child and Family Justice Research at Lancaster University. Claire’s work particularly focuses on the lived experience of families within the child protection and family justice systems. Claire has worked on a range of research projects at local, regional and national levels including the Vulnerable Birth Mothers and Recurrent Care Proceedings project and most recently the Born into Care series examining newborns in care proceedings. Claire was the lead researcher on the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory supported project developing new national guidelines to improve practice when a baby is separated from their parents at birth. Claire is also Director of the Giving HOPE Project, a social enterprise working to improve practice when the state intervenes at birth due to safeguarding concerns.