All Outputs (3)

‘We don’t ask for a luxury life, just basic things’: the experiences of mothers with babies in the UK asylum system. (2025)
Journal Article
Lovell-Kennedy, S., Grieve, L. M., Shemery, S., Mufara, V., Lerkins, T., Umanhonlen, B., Tamami, S., Abdilahi, F., Purdey, A., & Ball, H. L. (2025). ‘We don’t ask for a luxury life, just basic things’: the experiences of mothers with babies in the UK asylum system. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 8, Article 100264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2025.100264

UK asylum accommodation has repeatedly been indicted as failing to meet the needs of pregnant individuals, those caring for babies, and all children. Charity-sector staff supporting new mothers in the asylum system expressed concern that ill-equipped... Read More about ‘We don’t ask for a luxury life, just basic things’: the experiences of mothers with babies in the UK asylum system..

Piloting Eyes on the Baby: A Multiagency Training and Implementation Intervention Linking Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention and Safeguarding (2024)
Journal Article
Ball, H. L., Grieve, L. M., Keegan, A., Cooper, L., Lovell-Kennedy, S., Newbury-Birch, D., …Healy, A. (2024). Piloting Eyes on the Baby: A Multiagency Training and Implementation Intervention Linking Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention and Safeguarding. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2024, Article 4944268. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/4944268

We describe the coproduction, pilot implementation, and user evaluation of an evidence-based training intervention addressing prevention of Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy (SUDI) for the multiagency workforce supporting vulnerable families with b... Read More about Piloting Eyes on the Baby: A Multiagency Training and Implementation Intervention Linking Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention and Safeguarding.

Multiagency approaches to preventing sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI): a review and analysis of UK policies (2023)
Journal Article
Ball, H. L., Keegan, A.-A., Whitehouse, D. R., Cooper, L. S., Lovell-Kennedy, S. R., Murray, L. M., Newbury-Birch, D., Cleghorn, N. J., & Healy, A. (2023). Multiagency approaches to preventing sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI): a review and analysis of UK policies. BMJ Public Health, 1(1), e000017. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2023-000017

Background Recent reviews of sudden unexpected deaths in infancy (SUDI) in England recommend a multiagency working (MAW) approach to prevention but lack clear guidance around how this might be implemented.

Aims In England, local authorities commis... Read More about Multiagency approaches to preventing sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI): a review and analysis of UK policies.