Pause work with women who have experienced, or are at risk of, repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care. Pause work with women to take control of their lives, breaking a destructive cycle that causes both them and their children deep trauma.
The service offers an intensive, supportive 18-month programme that may involve advocacy and support to help birth family members get their views across when dealing with children’s services and other official agencies, counselling or therapeutic support and support groups for birth families affected by adoption.The service also offers assistance for contact with an adopted child including letterbox contact (contact is sometimes described as ‘keeping in touch’ or family time’).
Pause is joint funded by the Staffordshire Commissioner’s Office with the Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Tent Integrated Care Board (ICB).
