Young people dealing with the death of a parent will be offered free assistance handling end-of-life admin involving personal and household accounts, thanks to a new partnership between Child Bereavement UK and nationwide bereavement service, Settld.

The new partnership is designed to ease some of the account admin angst which bereaved families experience, particularly surviving parents and adult children who have to cope with a death.

Child Bereavement UK helps children, parents and families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. The charity supports children and young people up to the age of 25 who are facing bereavement, and anyone affected by the death of a child of any age.

Settld is a pioneering, free service which allows members of the public to notify multiple companies of a death in one go - from banks to insurance, credit card, mobile phone, subscription services and many more.

Ann Chalmers, CEO of Child Bereavement UK, said:

At Child Bereavement UK, we know from families we support that managing the affairs of a relative who has died can be a huge additional pressure at a very difficult time. Our partnership with Settld will help us to signpost families to a service that can help make things a little easier when they need it most.

In addition to notifying service providers, Settld’s free online service also helps users close, transfer or amend their loved one’s accounts and obtain date of death balances for probate. All communication with service providers is handled by Settld and tracked on a single online dashboard which can be accessed at any time.

Vicky Wilson, co-founder and chief executive of Settld, said:

Our safe, secure and totally free account admin service removes a lot of the stress following a bereavement. We hope our new partnership with Child Bereavement UK means that grieving families the charity supports will not have to go through any additional unnecessary stress when someone important to them dies.

Settld is here to help users get in touch with as many companies as they need to, in one go and we follow up until the cases are closed.

Both organisations will signpost users to each other’s websites.

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For further details, please contact:

Child Bereavement UK email: [email protected]

Tim Reid - Settld PR & media office

Email: [email protected] or mob 07720 414205

About Child Bereavement UK

Child Bereavement UK helps children, parents and families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. We support children and young people up to the age of 25 who are facing bereavement, and anyone affected by the death of a child of any age.

We provide training to professionals in health and social care, education, and the voluntary and corporate sectors, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.

For more information or to support the work of the charity, please email: [email protected]  Visit our website:  www.childbereavementuk.org

National Helpline: 0800 02 888 40

About Settld

Settld provides secure, simple and stress-free end-of-life admin services. Its free bereavement

account notification, closure and transfer solution is the private sector equivalent of ‘Tell Us Once’. Settld allows users, for free, to notify a death to multiple companies in one go. Co-founders of the Bereavement Standard campaign with Cruse Bereavement Care and Sue Ryder. www.settld.care