Grief at Christmas Time

The festive season can be a very difficult and emotional time for bereaved families. Here are some recommendations from our counsellors to prepare for Christmas and be able to care and support each other over this potentially difficult time.

Grief Education Now Part of UK School Curriculum

Grief education now part of UK school curriculum

After years of campaigning by experts across the bereavement sector, including the Childhood Bereavement Network and Child Bereavement UK, the Department for Education has now embedded grief and loss education into its statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSE) guidance.

Bereaved parents – experiencing guilt as the grief shifts and changes

Black woman looking sad sitting with a cup of tea and a hand on her forehead.

In this blogpost we explore the ways in which bereaved parents experience guilt as their grief shifts and changes with time. As they ‘learn to live with’ and build their lives around the inexorable grief of the death of a child, different types of guilt can be present along the way.