This week saw the culmination of a years work come to life.

Over the last 12 months we have conducted a survey into the levels of support for families following the death of a baby. 
We had 3500 responses from all across the UK. This meant that many NHS trusts were represented.

From the responses we received it highlighted that 45% of the families described the support they got as 'poor'. This wasn't really a surprise to us as we are usually contacted by those families that have not been given help from the professionals who should have been there for them.

Throughout the survey we were in close contact with news reporter for Capital Radio, Bethan Davis. 

Bethan has known us since the charity began in 2013,when she worked at Radio Aire, and really helped us to get our story out to the people of Leeds. 
We were more than happy to work alongside her as we know she has been as passionate as we are about bereaved families getting the support and help they need when and where they need it.

Bethan put in a Freedom of Information request to find out how many bereavement midwives there are across the country and what hours they are available. She spoke with several of the families we have worked with to get a good understanding of how poor the support can be. She also came to our office to see what we do on a day to day basis as well as getting an update from us all on how we think things are progressing.

Initially Bethan was going to put out the story on Capital Radio in Yorkshire but she decided to approach her boss to see about launching it across the country. 

Thankfully he said YES. 

Tuesday 9th October was the start of Baby Loss Awareness week and seemed to be the perfect day to go live with the campaign. 6am on Capital Radio news the story began. Every news report on the hour throughout the day continued the campaign with interviews playing from the founder of the charity, Carrie Curtis, and other co-founders and trustees. There was also a phone in section for people to express their ideas and views.
The airtime this has given us is another step forward in our plan to get a bereavement midwife in every maternity unit across the UK.


If you would like to have a read of the full report please click on the link below.
https://cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/43881675_382198505655308_4046259002747650048_n.pdf/Bereavement-Survery-conducted-by-Charlies-Angel-Centre-Foundation.pdf?_nc_cat=101&oh=c4aff13004789d7a26f8da8560cadc3d&oe=5BC536A7&dl=1

To hear some of the interviews aired on Capital Radio please click on the link below.
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.capitalfm.com%2Fyorkshire%2Fradio%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcalls-for-more-investment-in-bereavement-midwives%2F&h=AT0i2gLo0S641DLn_feN0iXehIkTQqFDN79CROkZsLU3xRh-IXUA8KuhrBAlEu8UI_NZ68vTRS9Jda3u5IKwG8hvTLG8mN2PTvgMbHT7WwgwYUKv2Td_EiUMHDYSF_L_pwNPaGfAQ6zDddGgN4JYgz6feU-NfGQMnv0oXPOL-izwvxC-Cg8HxFmM92Ez2q24nCymXlO-8R44AhSUL4Yb2l4pVZpSWtCmn5We1qmczIY2HxotVNkqEGVG3TDPRZvVTlb3qsMwAi5kn6mdOFsS7UEqfHLD1EKsyg6-VKMX-Qu8nTJzOi0wdt3WPedOwkqb_nwIZN1orp3WJI-2581lhaY1lAGaXJZggt1xLpK4G8BIY2c5sRUDbGrTPciJRAnWEbl3oiboQdzo-Za71KzUsNk77w7ZCQ


We hope that with all the extra publicity into child and baby loss that something will get done about the lack of professional support.
We will never stop fighting for better bereavement support and will always be there for those families let down by a system that should be there for them.