Find a Pause Practice

Pause Practices across the UK deliver an 18-month programme of support to women who have experienced the removal of children from their care. We currently have 16 Pause Practices, operating across 18 local authorities. Click on our interactive map to get contact details for each practice.

Pause Bradford

Lead contact: Jenna Harvey
jenna.harvey@barnardos.org.uk

Pause Doncaster

Lead contact: Claire Parfrement and Tara Westerman
pausedoncaster@doncaster.gov.uk

Pause Dorset

Lead contact: Beatriz Silvestre
beatrizsilvestre@bcha.org.uk

Pause Gloucestershire

Lead contact: Rosemary Smart
Pause.Gloucestershire@nelsontrust.com
01452 397690

Pause Greenwich

Lead contact: Antoinette Thompson
pause-info@royalgreenwich.gov.uk
020 8921 2948

Pause Hackney

Lead contact: Lucy Richardson
pause@hackney.gov.uk
020 8356 6031 - 07546 762237

Pause Halton

haltonteam@pause.org.uk

Lindsey Clarke, Practice Lead

Pause Hull

Lead contact: Samantha Tindall and Victoria Dawson
pause.admin@hullcc.gov.uk
01482 616056

Pause Islington & Camden

Lead contact: Bianca Pearman
bianca.pearman@islington.gov.uk
07808 890508

Pause Newham

Lead contact: Kuldip Kaur / Justina Asiedu
Pause@newham.gov.uk

Justina Asiedu, Coordinator

Kuldip Kaur, Practice Lead

Pause North Somerset & South Gloucestershire

nssg@pause.org.uk

Barbie Wilde, Coordinator

Lizzy Reakes, Practice Lead

Pause Oxfordshire

Lead contact: Grace Holland and Heather O'Donohoe
pause@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Pause Southwark

Lead contact: Jody Torode (PL) or Becca Sutton (coordinator)
pause@southwark.gov.uk

Pause Stoke

Lead contact: Natasha Francis
stoke@pause.org.uk

Natasha Francis, Coordinator

Sara Brunskill, Practice Lead

Pause Wakefield

Lead contact: Elizabeth Cooper (Liz) - Practice Lead and Natasha Kelly (Tash) Coordinator
natashakelly@wakefield.gov.uk

Pause West Sussex

Lead contact: Bernie Mullett and Stacy Bradford
pause@westsussex.gov.uk
0330 2222862