Easy Read guides for adults

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Easy Read guide - Bereavement and Feelings

Easy Read guide - Talking about funerals

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Chief Executive | Full-time | Hybrid

After twenty-eight years, our current Chief Executive is retiring. We are now seeking a new Chief Executive to lead the next exciting chapter in the history of Child Bereavement UK.
Supporting a child after a frightening event

Our short film suggests ways to support children worried about frightening events, including those reported in the media.
How festival volunteering helps
About volunteering

Traumatic bereavement resources for professionals

The UK Trauma Council has created a portfolio of free resources for school staff, bereavement services and NHS mental health services.
Supporting children when someone has died - guidance for healthcare professionals

Advice for health professionals on supporting children when someone important to them has died in hospital.
Supporting children when someone is dying

Generally parents or main carers are the best people to talk about sad news with their children.
When a baby or child has died - guidance for medical professionals

Telling parents or carers that their baby or child has died.
Supporting adults before their child dies - guidance for medical professionals

This information is mostly aimed at medical professionals, although it may also be helpful for other professionals involved in a family’s care at this time.

Supporting bereaved children and young people

Children and young people grieve just as much as adults but they can show it in different ways. Find out how you can help them and more about child grieving.
Children's understanding of death at different ages

Guidance on children's understanding of death at different ages and stages of development.
Grieving for a child of any age

The agony of losing a child of any age is unparalleled. There is no age or point in time that makes it any easier. No parent expects to face the death of their child and no grandparent expects to lose their grandchild.
When a grandparent dies

The death of a grandparent is often a child or young person’s first encounter with the death of someone important. Parents have a great deal to manage when their own parent or carer dies. There is the grief associated with their own loss, but also the reactions and responses of their children to the death of a grandparent.
Child Bereavement UK training

Child Bereavement UK designs and delivers training for professionals in health and social care, education, the emergency services and the voluntary and corporate sectors, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.
Contact us

Contact details for our Helpline, departments and services.
When your baby dies

When a baby lives only a short time or dies before birth due to miscarriage, stillbirth or a painful decision to end the pregnancy, people may assume that the loss is not important. This is simply not the case.
Explaining death and dying to children

Guidance for teachers and parents on talking to children about death and dying,
UK death & bereavement statistics

A parent of children under 18 dies every 20 minutes in the UK; around 26,900 a year.
For adults bereaved as children

How being bereaved as a child can affect your life as an adult and where you can find support.

Short guidance films

Short films delivered by our support practitioners giving guidance on a range of bereavement topics. Read more

Books and resources

A list of books and resources relating to grief and bereavement and what may help. Read more

Others' experiences

Watch short films and read experiences of bereaved families and how support has helped them. Read more