Blank Space Webinar
Please do join us on Wednesday, 24 April from 12-1pm for a free webinar to find out more about our Blank Space campaign, which is calling for birth certificate equality for bereaved parents.
Currently, women who are widowed and unmarried have to undergo a traumatic and extremely unclear (and often costly) court process to register their partner’s name on their baby’s birth certificate. We want to work together to change this!
This webinar, which is open to WAY members and non-members, is an important step in this journey and will feature Scott Halliday, a leading Family Law Solicitor from Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, as well as WAY Ambassador Orlanda Bryars, who will share the challenges she faced in registering her late partner’s name on her daughter’s birth certificate.
We will also be providing practical guidance for women going through this process.
"Every child has the right to be registered at birth, to have a name and nationality, and, as far as possible, to know and be cared for by their parents." UN Convention of the Rights of the Child