Stillbirth CRE’s Pre Budget Submission

The Stillbirth CRE’s work, in close collaboration with a wide range of partners, is important to women and families and needs to continue, at scale. Our pre-budget submission builds on current work to ensure we’re equipped to continue the research, innovation and implementation that will be required to realise our important goal of reducing stillbirth rates in Australia by 20 per cent or more by the end of next year.

The submission is presented in two parts – the first highlighting two of the many pieces of work we are expanding, including the Safer Baby Bundle and improving best practice bereavement care. With projected federal funding diminishing over coming years, the second part of the submission offers the government a range of costed policy options for consideration. These policy options are designed to expand, amplify and widely disseminate the best practice already established through federal funding.