Workplace resources
Overview
We have developed a range of resources to help create more compassionate workplaces for people who experience pregnancy loss.
These resources are informed by findings from the PLACES Project which explored how to better support people in the workplace who experience the loss of a pregnancy under 24 weeks and was funded by the (then) Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. We are very grateful to every person who generously shared their experiences with us.
We encourage workplaces to endorse and use these resources which can be downloaded below.
Pregnancy Loss and the Workplace: A Toolkit for Employers and Employees
This toolkit aims to help workplaces to develop clear policies and practices to create more compassionate work environments and better experiences for people whose pregnancies end in loss. It is informed by the findings from the PLACES Project and a review of guidance and policies available from pregnancy loss charities, support organisations and public bodies.
This toolkit is for:
- Employers: To provide a structure and resources to help you develop your own workplace specific pregnancy loss policy and to ensure you are providing your employees and colleagues the best possible support in what can be an emotional and potentially traumatic event in their lives.
- Employees who experience pregnancy loss: To provide you with information about your rights as an employee and guidance on how best to navigate work after experiencing a pregnancy loss.
- Work colleagues: To help you better understand pregnancy loss and how it can be experienced and how you can support colleagues who experience pregnancy loss.
Words at Work: Experiences of pregnancy loss in the workplace {up to 23 weeks}
We have gathered these words to illuminate pregnancy loss at work. Each text in the book is a direct quotation from a person with experience of pregnancy loss who participated in the PLACES Project. Words at Work is available in electronic and printed formats.
The drawing used on the book cover was created by Lucy O’Donnell. It is one of a series she made in reflection of her own pregnancy losses. Drawing is at the centre of Lucy’s art practice, as an activity understood as a preliminary, working something through or possibilising. The circles in the drawing make reference to both cell structure and the term 'circle of life'. The forms can be read as coming together or moving a part, as an imagined internal activity that rethinks loss.
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