The Foundation for Infant Loss offers training to HR Professionals in Pregnancy and Infant Loss.
“Thank you so much for the comprehensive resources we received on miscarriage and baby loss. My colleagues and I found the training slide deck in particular very informative and full of practical advice. The material has clearly been written with great insight into this sensitive subject and we are currently working with our L&D team to make this available to other colleagues in the People Teams and to our Career Coaches (people managers). The training has also helped us to shape some internal PwC guidance we have written for our Career Coach community. We hope that together with our Miscarriage and Baby Loss policy, the training will help us open up conversations and create more empathy and understanding around these issues in our workplace”
Recent media coverage suggests that Employers are not supportive of Employees following a pregnancy or infant loss (May 2018)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44322263
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/family/bereaved-parents-let-down-at-work-by-lack-of-support-392708
The coverage advises that more than three-quarters (79%) of respondents state that their employer does not offer or provide any internal or external bereavement support upon the return to work following the death of a baby.
Our Aims:
Our aim is for headlines such as these to be a thing of the past:
Bereaved parents ‘let down at work by lack of support’ (BBC)
“Parents Devastated By The Death Of Their Baby Are Being Let Down By Employer”In the worst cases, bereaved parents have faced dismissal due to absence from work after their baby died” (The Daily Mail)
We aim to do so by delivering the following:
- Providing you with a Baby loss and Infertility awareness training webinar (Recorded – 2 hours duration in MP4 format) that you may use in house freely for HR and Line Managers
- A full toolkit for use on your LMS or local intranet
- A sample baby loss, Miscarriage at work and Infertility policy to help you develop your own
- Guidance on what other organisations are offering including time off and IVF Loans
- Online resources for ALL staff including e books.
The training session will cover:
- Pregnancy and Infant Loss in the UK including statistics
- Types of Loss
- Why does a baby die?
- The emotional impact on families
- Grief and likely behaviours
- Miscarriage at work – implementing a miscarriage at work policy
- First responses: What to do on hearing an employee has lost their baby
- Sensitive communication – what to say? what not to say?
- Return to work: A Phased return and work place adjustments
- Parents’ perspectives of returning to work: what helped and what did not?
- Dads: The Forgotten Party?
- Anniversaries and Triggers
- Support available and organizations that can help
- Considering Pregnancy and Infant Loss Champions in the workplace
- Subsequent Pregnancies after loss: The emotional rollercoaster
