So you could find a private midwife to attend your birth but she isnt insured and could get into trouble? How would you go about getting birth recorded and such if technically its "illegal"?
Homebirth will be legal after July. Midwives will need insurance in order to register, and this will be available for antenatal and postnatal care. There is no insurance for the actual birth, so there's an exemption for that. An exemption framework is in the process of being written so we don't know the details yet, but we have been assured that homebirth will not be illegal, no-one will be fined, deregistered etc. Midwives will be able to provide birth registration forms as we have always done