The Pause Timeline

Sophie Humphreys began collecting data of women subject to repeat removal of children in Hackney, while based at Homerton Hospital. Sophie Humphreys and Georgina Perry began having conversations about how to break the destructive cycle of the repeated removal of children into care.

The first Pause Practice opens as a pilot programme

Pause wins the first of two successful bids to the Department for Education’s Social Innovation Fund, allowing us to open a further six pilot Practices in Doncaster, Greenwich, Hull, Islington, Newham and Southwark.

By the end of 2015 Pause is working with and supporting over 100 women across England.

Pause receives additional funding from the Cabinet Office for the continued roll-out of Pause Practices.

Pause Wiltshire becomes the tenth Practice.

A successful bid to the Big Lottery Fund allows us expand into the nations, enable our Participant voice work, increase the services we offer to women who have completed the programme and think more creatively about the way we evaluate our work.

An independent evaluation of Pause’s pilot Practices, commissioned by the Department for Education, finds that Pause had a positive impact on the women taking part in the programme.

Pause begins to develop positive partnerships in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Our first Practice outside England is expected to open by the end of 2018.

With the opening of Practices in Rotherham and Wigan, there are now 20 Pause Practices operating across England.

The first Pause Practice outside England goes live in the Northern Trust, Northern Ireland.