Research Assistant post on the Stepping Stones Study.Come and work with us! This would be great opportunity for someone looking for qual research experience in a lovely team :)

“Crime has fallen by 50%” says Home Office Rishi Sunak Conservatives based on the headline official measure of crime in England and Wales. But that excludes harassment, stalking and sexual assault (yes, even rape).

***Job opportunity*** Join SARG - SCHARR at The University of Sheffield as a Research Associate in Alcohol and Public Health in the new National Institute for Health and Care Research Policy Research Unit in Addictions. Great opportunity if you're keen on research that directly influences policy jobs.ac.uk/job/DFM429/res…

💡NEW PUBLICATION ALERT💡Click here to read about our Scoping review mapping clinical guidelines and policy documents addressing needs of women who are dependent on drugs during the perinatal period …pregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

@intrepidstudent Polly Radcliffe Helen Cheyne @shirleylewis21 Emma Louise Smith, PhD Jo Neale

🚨 Scoping Review of clinical guidelines and policy documents addressing the needs of women who use drugs in the perinatal period 🚨 A THREAD OF FINDINGS:

2- A total of 111 guidelines or policy documents published between 2000 and 2022 were included in the review. The review found that:

3- · Guidance and policy documents consistently recommended multi-agency working, information sharing, and clear referral pathways. With more recent documents advocating a trauma-informed approach.

5- There was some inconsistency within local guidance on recommended opioid substitution medications for pregnant women.

6- Protocols and frequency for drug testing women in pregnancy varied as did the recommendations for the lengths of time neonates should be observed for neonatal abstinence syndrome.

7- Many of the safeguarding documents from England in particular drew on the Hidden Harm Report (2003) , although it was also clear from included documents that drug use did not necessarily mean that a mother could not provide good enough parenting.

8- There was a lack of guidance for supporting and care for women who have had their babies have been removed from their care as a result of substance use.

9- IN CONCLUSION: There is an urgent need to identify how services can work across disciplinary boundaries to consistently provide evidence-based support to this vulnerable group of mothers.

Are you interested in best practices and care pathways for pregnant women who are dependent on drugs, and their infants? To find out more and register: …earlyfindingswebinar.eventbrite.co.uk

Don't miss next Monday's cutoff for the SSA Impact Prize. The winner will get £1,000 and a spot our Annual Conference in November. Join the company of past winners Leon Xiao and Philip Newall and apply here: buff.ly/2OK68Mb

Polly Radcliffe pls RT! The London premiere run of Matthew Zajac’s internationally acclaimed The Tailor Of Inverness @ the Finborough Theatre opens at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre for a four-week limited season on Tuesday 14 May and runs until 8 June. Get your tickets 👉 finboroughtheatre.co.uk/production/the…

STUDENTS: REGISTER TO VOTE RIGHT NOW! The law is as follows. 1. You can register at home AND at your term-time address, if that's more convenient for you. 2. You can CHOOSE on the day where to vote. 3. But you can ONLY legally vote in ONE place on the day.

The timing of the election might cause problems for some, esp students coming to the end of term or those who have holidays booked (whoever they intend to vote for). The solution is to apply for a postal vote. Here’s the link to do so. Please share. gov.uk/apply-postal-v…

Great that 30 months of work on the Stepping Stones Study are coming together

The ADVANCE-D study has now been registered in the ISRCTN: the UK's Clinical Study Registry registry, see below for more information