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Maternity Action works closely with health professionals, advisors and community organisations to develop our information resources and in our policy, research and campaigning.

Training courses

Maternity Action delivers a training course for midwives to improve maternity care for refugees and asylum seekers.  We provide resources to support midwives working with refugees and asylum seekers, including useful contacts, reading lists and model letters. 

Maternity Action provides training on rights and benefits, including an introductory half day course, 'Maternity and parental rights at work'.
 


Information and advice

You are welcome to download, copy and distribute our information sheets to your clients.  You are also welcome to link to our resources from your website.  You and your clients are welcome to contact our advice line.

We have
information sheets on employment rights and benefits.  We have information on the right to breastfeed on return to work and the right to breastfeed in public places.

We have a series of information sheets on the rights of pregnant women and new parents who are
asylum seekers, refugees or refused asylum seekers. 

We also have information on the rights of
migrants, including EU nationals, women with 'no recourse to public funds' and women are 'undocumented' migrants.

We have produced an information sheet on entitlement to free NHS maternity care which provides an accessible explanation of the NHS rules on charging for maternity care.  The National Institute of Clinical Excellence recommends this information sheet in its guidance on Pregnancy and Complex Social Factors.  

Policy, Research and campaigns

We research the issues that impact on the lives of pregnant women, new mothers and their families, and we actively participate in the policy development process.  We produce policy papers and consultation responses.  We campaign on the issues facing pregnant women and new parents, particularly those who are disadvantaged.
 

Maternity Action relies on your support to provide pregnant women, new mothers and their families with advice and information to deal with problems at work and in the benefits system, and to get access to the healthcare that they need.
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