CYP Now - Trauma-informed approach helps vulnerable mothers in Oxfordshire

Trauma-based support programme for vulnerable women has helped reduce the number of children taken into care and improved parent-child relationships.

Women who want to join Pause are asked after a 16-week engagement phase if they will commit to a pause in pregnancy. Picture: Pause

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Pause, a national charity that works with women who have had – or are at risk of having – more than one child removed from their care, offers emotional and practical support through its trauma-informed programmes.

Since it was launched as a pilot scheme in Hackney more than 10 years ago, the charity has developed a network of 24 Pause practices across 30 local authorities in England.

The practices operate under a model of care that recognises almost all the women supported by its programmes have experienced multiple traumas often both as children and into adulthood.

As such, the charity aims to address the impact of these traumatic experiences by creating supportive and trusting relationships between women and its team of practitioners over an 18-month period.

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