Manage bereavement within your workplace

An introduction to Child Bereavement UK's Bereavement in the Workplace Training, hosted by Bank of England

Bereavement is one of the most common factors affecting employees’ performance at work, with an estimated 1 in 10 employees affected at any point in time (McGuinness, 2009).

Yet research has shown that bereaved people are being failed by a lack of support in the workplace.

Child Bereavement UK can work with you to enable your company to support its bereaved customers and colleagues in the best way possible. We can run bespoke training sessions at your offices, providing practical information to enable your staff to understand how bereavement may affect their colleagues and customers, whilst balancing business objectives.

Child Bereavement UK’s workplace training has had many benefits not only when dealing with bereavement, both with staff and customers, but also helping our staff to deal with loss generally. We cannot recommend it enough.

- Barry Coleman, Head of Employee Relations, Virgin Money

To find out more or to arrange to visit us, please contact our Corporate Partnerships Team on 01494 569123 or email: [email protected]

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A survey commissioned by Child Bereavement UK has revealed that only 10% of teachers have received bereavement training during Initial Teacher Training or subsequent professional development.
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This research was commissioned by Child Bereavement UK (CBUK) and funded by the True Colours Trust and carried out by External Research Consultant Joy O’Neill, and Dr. Katie Koehler and Dr. Ann Rowland from Child Bereavement UK.
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