Why choose Duty to Pause?

This is specialist menopause-informed professional practice training for organisations whose professionals support, assess, record information about or make decisions affecting looked-after children and the people who care for them.

The programme explores what can happen when significant health-related change is noticed but misunderstood, interpreted without context, or recorded as evidence of something else — and gives professionals a practical framework for responding differently.

What makes Duty to Pause different?

Specialist learning designed to change professional practice — not simply increase menopause awareness.

  • Built around professional practice

    Learners go beyond recognising symptoms to explore how menopause-related change can affect communication, interpretation, recording, professional relationships and decision-making.

  • Grounded in lived experience

    Developed from lived experience within fostering and children’s services, then transformed into structured learning focused on transferable professional practice rather than blame or individual cases.

  • Practical tools for real-world decisions

    Professionals gain frameworks and resources to support better conversations, clearer recording, reflective practice, proportionate support and more evidence-informed professional judgement.

  • Designed for change beyond the course

    Organisational packages combine training with the Professional Resource Pack and Learning Community, helping teams build shared language and carry menopause-informed principles into everyday practice.

  • Focused on prevention, not just response

    Professionals learn to notice change earlier, test assumptions and consider proportionate support before misunderstanding becomes embedded in records, relationships or consequential decisions.

  • Built for shared organisational practice

    A common learning framework helps professionals across roles and services approach menopause-related change with greater consistency, creating a stronger foundation for joined-up practice.p

Awareness is only the beginning.

Duty to Pause does not teach professionals to diagnose menopause. It teaches them when to pause, what to clarify, how to separate evidence from assumption, and how to respond proportionately before an interpretation becomes a lasting record or consequential decision.

Choose the right package for your organisation

Whether you’re training a small professional team or implementing Duty to Pause across multiple services, our organisational packages provide the same specialist learning framework, with licence options designed around the scale of your workforce.

Choose the package that best reflects the number of professionals you want to train.

Micro Organisation Package

Up to 10 professionals · £2,550

Designed for smaller teams that want to establish a shared foundation in menopause-informed professional practice, with specialist training, practical resources and continued learning support.
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Small Organisation Package

Up to 25 professionals · £5,500

Designed for smaller organisations and services that want to build a shared, consistent approach to menopause-informed professional practice across a wider team.
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Medium Organisation Package

Up to 50 professionals · £9,500

Designed for growing organisations and services that want to embed a consistent menopause-informed approach across multiple teams, functions or professional groups.
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Large Organisation Package

Up to 100 professionals · £16,500

Designed for larger organisations and services that want to establish consistent, menopause-informed professional practice across substantial teams, departments, or service areas.
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Enterprise & Bespoke Package

Tailored to your organisation · Individually quoted

Designed for organisations with complex, large-scale or multi-service training requirements. We’ll work with you to shape learner access, implementation support and resources around your workforce, services and organisational needs.
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Show your commitment to menopause-informed practice

When all named learners within your organisational package have successfully completed their Duty to Pause training, your organisation will receive the “We Are a Menopause-Informed Organisation” digital badge for use on your website and approved digital communications.

The badge provides a visible way to demonstrate that your team has completed specialist Duty to Pause menopause-informed professional practice training and is valid for 12 months from the date the organisation’s training is completed.

To continue displaying the badge after this period, the organisation must maintain current Duty to Pause training in accordance with the applicable renewal or refresher requirements.

The badge recognises completion of organisational training and is separate from the Duty to Pause Award of Excellence, which involves an independent, evidence-led assessment of organisational practice.

One standard of learning. A package that fits your organisation.

Every Duty to Pause organisational package is built around the same specialist menopause-informed professional practice framework. The package you choose simply reflects the number of professionals you need to train and the scale of implementation required — not a different standard of learning. Not sure which package is right for your organisation? We can help you identify the most appropriate route.

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