May. 09 2024
Source Page: Fire and rescue assessment 2023Found: Promising practice : Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service has improved its maternity and menopause
May. 09 2024
Source Page: Fire and rescue assessment 2023Found: Promising practice : Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service has improved its maternity and menopause
May. 09 2024
Source Page: The Evaluation of the Restart SchemeFound: school uniform purchases, Healthy Start vouchers, free prescriptions, free dental treatment, Sure Start maternity
Written Evidence May. 08 2024
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)Found: Expand UC flexible support fund to SPs on maternity leave for upfront childcare costs 5.
Oral Evidence May. 08 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: that the early years childcare workforce is disproportionately younger women, who often go off on maternity
May. 08 2024
Source Page: Self-employment, the gig economy and the National Minimum WageFound: to a core set of rights (including the minimum wage) but are not entitled to others (for example, maternity
May. 08 2024
Source Page: Community Life Survey: October to December 2023 quarterly releaseFound: On maternity or paternity leave 6. Retired and not working at all 7.
May. 08 2024
Source Page: Community Life Survey: October to December 2023 quarterly releaseFound: (less than 30 hours a week) On government supported training Unemployed and available for work On maternity
Correspondence May. 08 2024
Committee: Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice CommitteeFound: encountered consistently within healthcare settings including in GP surgeries, vaccination clinics, maternity
Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether NHS England, integrated care boards, and NHS Trusts have ensured that all maternity and neonatal staff have had the training, supervision, and support as required.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Regulated healthcare professionals need to meet the education and training standards set by their profession’s regulator. It is the responsibility of individual employers to ensure that their staff are trained and competent to carry out the role for which they are employed, and for making decisions about the ongoing professional training and development requirements of their staff. This includes responsibility for investing in the future of their staff, through providing continuing professional development funding.
Mandatory training for maternity staff is outlined in Core competency framework Version 2: Minimum standards and stretch targets, which provides both the minimum standards and stretch targets. Compliance with the core competency framework is overseen by integrated care boards and is incentivised through the Maternity Incentive Scheme which is administered by NHS Resolution. A copy of the framework is attached.
Support for staff working in maternity and neonatal services is provided by Professional Midwifery Advocates and Professional Nurse Advocates. This is a non-statutory model of clinical supervision. There are 1400 Professional Midwifery Advocates and approximately 300 Professional Nurse Advocates working in trusts in England.