The trauma of a stillbirth can leave parents afraid to prepare for the birth of a subsequent baby and can damage self-esteem and confidence in parenthood and child rearing.

Skillnets, the Government-funded agency tasked with addressing businesses’ skills shortages, provided almost 50,000 training days to unemployed jobseekers and helped reskill thousands of company employees last year, according to a newly published independent evaluation.

Hospital chaplains struggle with their personal faith when trying to help parents come to terms with stillbirth, research has found.

Doctors endure a maelstrom of emotion such as fear, remorse, sadness, loss, discomfort and anger after delivering a stillborn baby, according to the first research study into the impact of stillbirth on consultant obstetricians.