Webinars

Child Bereavement UK supports children and young people (up to age 25), parents and families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. This includes providing training to professionals involved with those affected by bereavement, assisting them to understand the challenges of grief and ways to help.

We have developed successful partnerships nationally to support our work, including with London Grid for Learning, London's Air Ambulance Charity, and other organisations such as Sands and Abigail’s Footsteps. We also work with local authorities, organisations and businesses, including Bank of England, Virgin Money, Nationwide and Slater and Gordon.

For our current programme of webinars for professionals, click below:

3 hour Interactive Webinars

Interactive webinars giving a more in depth view on topics including:

Children and Young People with SEN - Supporting them through grief
Understanding Traumatic Bereavement in Children & Young People
When a Child Dies – Supporting Parents & Families
Bereavement by Suicide: Supporting Children & Young People
Pregnancy Loss and the Death of a Baby: Supporting Parents
Teenagers and Bereavement
Supporting Bereaved Children and Young People
Supporting grieving families as a funeral director (contact us to arrange)

For schools and the education sector

Bereavement Awareness Training – an introduction to bereavement for education professionals working in:

For more in-depth, interactive training for those supporting bereaved young people in an educational setting:

Grief and bereavement in schools

For education professionals in Greater Manchester, find out more here.

For professionals working with the public, please contact us to arrange.

For Doctors

Training for Doctors - All doctors and trainees whose roles involve exposure to issues of grief and bereavement, please email the Training Department for more information.

Bereavement in the Workplace

A series of online webinars to help businesses manage the short and long-term impacts of the pandemic, and bereavement in general, on staff and client wellbeing. Find out more here.

* If you have questions regarding the webinars or are having technical difficulties, please don't call our Helpline or use LiveChat which are for bereavement support and information. These FAQs should support you with any queries. If you have used the troubleshooting suggestions and are still experiencing difficulties, please email email the Training Department.

Latest

The Pennant Family

The Pennant family share how they’re fundraising for Child Bereavement UK in memory of their son Ned and how they’ve raised funds with three previous challenges.
Ministry of Sound Classical

The Wyldes | Cornwall
Rudimental

The Wyldes | Cornwall
Y Not Festival

Pikehall | Derbyshire

Telling a child that someone has died

It is important to tell a child of any age when someone important in their lives has died, and ideally this is done by someone who is closest to them.
Supporting bereaved children and young people

Children and young people grieve just as much as adults but they show it in different ways. Find out how you can help them and more about child grieving.
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 impact on children and young people

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.
Children's understanding of death at different ages

Babies and young children have no understanding of the concept of death yet, long before they are able to talk, babies are likely to react to upset and changes in their environment brought about by the absence of a significant person.
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.
Children's understanding of death at different ages

Guidance on children's understanding of death at different ages and stages of development.
UK death & bereavement statistics

A parent of children under 18 dies every 22 minutes in the UK; around 23,600 a year. This equates to around 111 children being bereaved of a parent every day.