Current members

GPCPC is a network of UK General Practitioners (GPs) working together to improve perinatal care in primary care. We consider that better perinatal care will reduce healthcare inequalities, improve women’s health in the shorter and longer term and reduce adverse childhood outcomes and experiences.

We believe that children need a happy and secure childhood and that parents play a key role in giving their children a good start in life – helping them to achieve their full potential.

Families invite us into their homes and lives so we can form relationships so that our peer volunteers and expert staff can offer non-judgemental, compassionate, confidential support. This enables parents to undertake a sustained journey of change that increases their own and their family’s well-being.

We work holistically with other community support partners including health practitioners and offers a range of services aimed at building stronger families and communities and creating a safer environment for children through in-home or group programmes.

The iHV was launched on 28 November 2012 to benefit all children, families and communities. The Institute of Health Visiting is a UK Centre of Excellence supporting the development of universally high quality health visiting practice, so that health visitors can effectively respond to the health needs of all children, families and communities enabling them to achieve their optimum level of health, thereby reducing health inequalities.

Over the last two years the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) has created almost 600 Health Visitor PMH Champions. Champions have now cascaded this superbly evaluated training to over 9,500 public health practitioners. The institute also offers a highly acclaimed Multi Professional PMH Champion or direct delivery training as well as a half day perinatal and infant mental health awareness training. iHV training provides opportunity for practitioners to develop the levels of knowledge, skills and attitudes required in their role to enable effective early intervention for families affected by or at risk of perinatal mental illness.

NMSF also known as Jake’s Charity helps keep maternity services available, accessible, safe and well resourced. Ensures prospective parents have all the information needed to make informed decisions throughout their pregnancy journey.

Kinship is the leading national charity for all kinship families – the grandparents and siblings, the aunts, uncles and family friends who step up to raise children when their parents can’t. Since 2002 we have worked with and for kinship care families towards our vision for a society in which kinship families are recognised, valued and supported. We recognise the profound commitment and love that kinship carers have for the children they care for.

We support kinship carers in their homes and communities, giving advice and helping them work through problems to find the best way forward. We connect carers together in our national community and network of local support groups. We help professionals understand kinship families and improve support for them. Through our research and campaigns, we make sure kinship care is understood and that government knows what changes are needed.

We are a politically-led, cross-party organisation that works on behalf of councils to ensure local government has a strong, credible voice with national government. We aim to influence and set the political agenda on the issues that matter to councils so they are able to deliver local solutions to national problems.

Make Birth Better is a collective of experts who bring together lived experience and extensive professional knowledge of birth trauma and vicarious trauma.

Make Birth Better offers support to all of those affected by birth trauma by providing information and signposting. We also aim to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of birth trauma through clinically-led education, campaigning and research.