Resources and actions on Rwanda to share this week👇🏾

Equipping ourselves with accurate information and building our solidarity and resistance are crucial in this moment.

Remember that we keep each other safe, and we leave no one behind ✊🏾❤️

migrantsorganise.org/we-keep-each-o…

Hearing Annette describe, in 1999, how desperate she was to make sure her baby wasn't born inside prison walls, & the pain of being separated from her baby 6 hrs after birth, is so difficult. Unfortunately many women are still experiencing these fears & traumas in prisons today.

Wrongly Accused - the podcast Nicole hosts, which explores this tragic case - is so powerful and so important. Our Director Naomi Delap met with Nicole to discuss her mother's experience of pregnancy and birth during prison custody, in episode 4 bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p…

This webinar marked the publication of an incredibly important study which highlights, among other things, the links between death by suicide and mothers' involvement with children's social care. Further evidence of the need for more trauma-informed, holistic and equitable care.

An enormous thank you to all our speakers at this afternoon's webinar and those who listened. As ever, the coming together of lived, learned and clinical expertise is hugely powerful and - we hope - a driver of real change for mothers and their families. maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/news/aspen-sui…

A new report #InvisibleWomen from Prison Reform Trust highlights how the growing number of women serving long sentences “feel they are set up to fail in a system in which they are an afterthought”

Read more from M A Y A O P P E N H E I M 💃🏻 ✍️ The Independent:

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

It’s Black Maternal Awareness Week. There’s been a lot of amazing work done in the last few years by Fivexmore_ The Motherhood Group and lots of other orgs. We need to keep examining wider systemic issues surrounding this but also keep telling those positive births stories,

To support our new briefing paper Understanding How #WomensCentres Work Lilly has written a new blog to share her firsthand experience on why women’s centres work so well + how partnership working improves the services & support available to women: wearenwjc.org.uk/blog/why-women…

What do you think needs to change to deliver safer maternity & neonatal services?

Our Joint Policy Unit with Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 is looking for healthcare professionals to give feedback on what changes need to be made to deliver a safer system.

Complete the survey: bit.ly/4deSpYm

Last week, the prison population rose by 148 people. By 2028, the population is projected to reach up to 114,800 and this sustained growth has contributed to the ongoing overcrowding in many of our prisons.