To develop policy that supports families dealing with the grief and loss of a baby, and to raise awareness of what more can be done by the government, Parliament or other agencies to help those affected.
1. Baby Loss Awareness Week and Held In Our Hearts charity
02/11/2021 - Early Day Motions
Found: That this House recognises Baby Loss Awareness Week; highlights that it is an opportunity to remember
2. Remove 24 week gestation requirement for a baby loss to be registered
12/05/2021 - Petitions
Found: all baby loss should be acknowledged. One in four pregnancies will heartbreakingly end in a loss of a
3. Baby Loss Awareness Week 2021
18/10/2021 - Early Day Motions
Found: That this House recognises that Baby Loss Awareness Week took place from 9 to 15 October 2021; offers
4. Screening tests for you and your baby: babies in special care units
19/08/2020 - Public Health England (PHE)
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Found: tests for your baby
Information for parents
of babies who are in a special care baby unit,
neonatal
5. Registration of stillbirth
12/08/2019 - Parliamentary Research
Found: Deaths (Registration Etc.) Act 2019 4. Pregnancy loss review 5. Previous calls for change 2 Registration
1. Baby Loss: Covid-19
05/11/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: the covid-19 outbreak on people experiencing baby loss.It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship - Speech Link
2: marked Baby Loss Awareness Week—as with many things, covid-19 caused some delay, as Baby Loss Awareness - Speech Link
3: is a decision that the mother must make, as the baby still belongs to her body. I could have chosen not - Speech Link
2. Baby Loss Awareness Week
23/09/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: considered the matter of Baby Loss Awareness Week.Ahead of Baby Loss Awareness Week 2021, which - Speech Link
2: condolences to anyone who has experienced the loss of a baby. To anyone to whom this has happened, despite - Speech Link
3: had experienced the loss of a baby. Unlike me, many have no idea why their baby had died. As well as - Speech Link
3. Baby Loss Awareness Week
08/10/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: House has considered baby loss awareness week.This is the fourth Baby Loss Awareness Week debate - Speech Link
2: members of the public who have not experienced baby loss, and for some Members here, is what we learn about - Speech Link
3: the variation in care for families bereaved by baby loss. It was an incredibly moving debate—I remember - Speech Link
4. Reducing Baby Loss
20/07/2021 - Westminster Hall
1: babies die before, during or soon after their birth. Baby deaths need to fall much faster if the Government’s - Speech Link
2: harrowing stories of their own experiences of baby loss and miscarriage. I would like to thank all those - Speech Link
5. Historical Stillbirth Burials and Cremations
06/02/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: bereaved through a stillbirth and other types of baby loss. By speaking openly and sharing their personal - Speech Link
2: process. The debates that we have here about baby loss are also part of that process. There is not one - Speech Link
asked by: Vicky Foxcroft
07/06/2021
... what support his Department is providing to NHS Trusts to help ensure that they can facilitate full parental presence on neonatal units. 2. Baby Care Units
asked by: Vicky Foxcroft
28/06/2021
... (c) 8 hours or less and (d) 12 hours or less. 3. Baby Care Units
asked by: Vicky Foxcroft
28/06/2021
... (c) 24 hour access for one parent and (d) time-limited access for both parents. 4. Baby Care Units
asked by: Vicky Foxcroft
09/06/2021
... if he will publish a National Neonatal Roadmap to help neonatal units to return to full parent access. 5. Baby Care Units
asked by: Sharon Hodgson
30/06/2020
... if he will introduce a subsistence fund to provide funding for parents from low-income families in England to spend time with their new-born babies in neonatal units.
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5 Current APPG Officers
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Cherilyn Mackrory
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Truro and Falmouth
Joined: 24th February 2020Broadband and Digital Communication , Celtic Sea , Local Democracy , Ocean Conservation , South West , Women's Health
Patricia Gibson
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - North Ayrshire and Arran
Joined: 28th September 2017
'Left Behind' Neighbourhoods , Armed Forces Covenant , Art, Craft and Design in Education , Assistive Technology , Autism , Basketball , Breast Cancer , British Jews , Cancer , Childhood Trauma , Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , Craft , Dance , Design and Innovation , Dyslexia and Other Specific Learning Difficulties , Electric Vehicles , Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion , First Do No Harm , Food and Drink , Food and Health , Food Banks , Hormone Pregnancy Tests , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Motor , Music , Music Education , Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) , National Food Strategy , Ovarian Cancer , Performing Arts Education and Training , School Food , Singapore , Special Educational Needs and Disabilities , Surgical Mesh , Textiles and Fashion , Ticket Abuse , Tidy Britain , Trailer and Towing Safety , Valproate and other Anti-Epileptic Drugs in Pregnancy , Video Games and Esports , Wine and Spirits
Contact Details
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Cherilyn Mackrory MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 3713.
Email: cherilyn.mackrory.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Megan Ball, Sands, CAN Mezzanine, 49-51 East Road, London, N1 6AH. Tel: 020 3897 6094
Email: appg.babyloss@sands.org.uk
Secretariat:
Sands acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.sands.org.uk/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
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Sands
Secretariat From : 27/01/2021 To : 26/01/2022
£3,001
27 Jan 2021
The Lullaby Trust
Secretariat From : 27/01/2021 To : 26/01/2022
£4,501
27 Jan 2020
The Lullaby Trust
Secretariat From : 27/01/2020 To : 26/01/2021
£6,001
18 Jul 2019
The Lullaby Trust
The Lullaby Trust pays Drew Lindon Consulting Ltd to provide secretariat services to the group on its behalf From : 18/07/2019 To : 17/07/2020
£6,001
18 Jul 2018
The Lullaby Trust
The Lullaby Trust pays Drew Lindon Consulting Ltd to provide secretariat services to the group on its behalf From : 18/07/2018 To : 17/07/2019
£9,001
11 Oct 2017
The Lullaby Trust
Baby Loss Awareness Week event held on 11/10/2017
£4,501
18 Jul 2017
The Lullaby Trust
The Lullaby Trust acts as the group's secretariat and pays Drew Lindon Consulting Ltd to help it fulfil that role From : 18/07/2017 To : 17/07/2018
£6,001
3 Feb 2016
Lullaby Trust
Secretariat From : 03/02/2016 To : 31/12/2015
£6,001
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Baby Loss APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Victoria Prentis
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Banbury
Joined: 16th March 2016Departed: 24th February 2020
Antoinette Sandbach
Chair & Registered Contact
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Eddisbury
Joined: 16th March 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
