Professor Karen Broadhurst OBE

Delighted to be awarded OBE and huge thanks to all the wonderful colleagues, practitioners and families I’ve worked with over the years😊😊👇@thenhsa.bsky.social @familylaw.bsky.social @emma-gordon.bsky.social @familyrightsgp.bsky.social

Behind the Scenes from Lost Mothers with Anna Herrmann and Neetu Singh YouTube video by CleanBrk

This short, powerful film gives a behind the scenes insight into the making of the brilliant @cleanbrk.bsky.social play, Scenes from Lost Mothers by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. 💜@birthcompanions.bsky.social @uniofherts.bsky.social @rcm.org.uk @carolynharris.bsky.social @arceastofengland.bsky.social

Pregnant offenders in England and Wales could be spared jail under new guidelines Changes to sentencing guidance will also apply to mothers of children under one year old

🎉CAMPAIGN WIN: Sentencing Council announce new Imposition guideline that acknowledges prison is high-risk for pregnant women and tells courts to avoid sending women there! 📣🎉✨

This is so, so hard-won & would never have happened without the power of MOTHERS 🎉💞

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I'm pleased to say that my new book 'Fairer welfare systems for better mental health' has now been published by @policypress.bsky.social! It argues that well-designed social security systems could play a central role in improving population mental health and sets out ideas for change.

New book from my amazing colleague Katie Pybus Fairer Welfare Systems for Better Mental Health url:https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/fairer-welfare-systems-for-better-mental-health

📢 Webinar: Advancing methods for understanding household level hardship

Speakers will present research, provide insights & and discuss emerging data developments, Census and DWP’s 'RAPID' database.

3 Presentations
📆 7/4/25
🕐 12-1pm
👩‍💻 Tickets buff.ly/zMyi7WF
@karenb-2.bsky.social

Power in the courtroom: Judicial perspectives on care‐experienced girls and women in court This article focuses on rarely heard judicial perspectives, and the little explored challenges facing care-experienced girls and women in court. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with judges and ...

NEW ARTICLE. ‘Power in the Courtroom: Judicial Perspectives on Care-Experienced Girls & Women in Court’ just published – by me, Katie Hunter, @jostaines.bsky.social & Julie Shaw.

This one was a very long time in the writing and so pleased to see it out.

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Children and families with no recourse to public funds: Learning from case reviews This paper reviews 26 reports into deaths and serious abuse of children in families who were subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) rule. Our analysis illustrates vulnerabilities caused by...

Very similar issues to the 26 other reviews into child deaths where the child had NRPF onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The image shows a quote by WBG's director Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson saying: “It is encouraging to hear the Prime Minister emphasise living standards in his ‘Plan for Change’ speech today, acknowledging that his number one mission—growing the economy—must translate into people across the UK genuinely feeling better off by the end of this Parliament. “We know that women, particularly Black and minority ethnic women, single mothers and Disabled women, have borne the brunt of public service cuts and changes to benefits and taxes since 2010. Our analysis reveals that austerity measures have cost the poorest women over 20% of their standard of living, leaving many struggling to make ends meet.

Today the Prime Minister gave a speech, setting out his 'Plan for Change' with new milestones on Labour's Five Missions including on the NHS and early education and childcare. Read our full response here: www.wbg.org.uk/article/wbg-...

Alex Clegg quote: “Over a million children living in poverty today would not be below the poverty line were it not for sky-high housing costs, especially in the private rented sector. “The Government could lift 75,000 children out of poverty by the end of the decade if they spent £1.8 billion to repeg Local Housing Allowance to the 30th percentile of rents. “But in the longer term, investment in house building – especially social housing – is essential to both reduce the rents that low-income families are paying and ease the pressure on the housing benefit bill.”

🚨 New report published today 🚨

Our final Housing Outlook of the year looks at the 1.1 million children who live in families whose housing costs push them below the poverty line.

Read the report ➡️ https://buff.ly/3VnzDq8

Happy to share my new paper, "Living Apart Together and Older Adults’ Mental Health in the United Kingdom", with Rory Coulter (UCL), in Gerontological Society of America (GSA)'s official journal – Journal of Gerontology Series B: Social Sciences. Open-Access here: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

“Will They Take my Child?”: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Protection Among Families of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds Living in South Australia This paper reports on interviews with 30 individuals from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, or South Sudan, all of whom had resettled in South Australia. Participants were interviewed abou...

“Will They Take my Child?”: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Protection Among Families of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds Living in South Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....