The Child Bereavement Charity – Facts and Figures

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Facts and Figures

The charity's website receives in excess of 120,000 visits per annum, half of which are new users, which include both professionals and families downloading information and families using our online forum.

Each year the charity trains circa 5,000 professionals, including nurses, midwives, doctors, paramedics, social workers, teachers, police, coroners and other professionals in both the statutory and voluntary sectors.

Each year the charity runs training for 230 schools, providing knowledge, skills and information resulting in effective and timely support available to all pupils should they experience the death of a family member or friend.

Each year the charity supports a further 200+ schools by telephone, by giving staff guidance on how to work directly with grieving pupils in their schools. Together this results in tens of thousands of children and young people having access to more effective and appropriate bereavement support or benefitting in the long term by being better able to cope when someone important to them dies.

The charity provides direct bereavement support to approximately 150 children and 125 adults per annum at its Buckinghamshire-based family bereavement support service, through group, 1:1 and family sessions. Of the children directly supported, approximately half are bereaved through the death of a sibling and half bereaved through the death of a parent / carer / other close family member.

Thousands of other families are supported indirectly through our work with schools, and through training of professionals whose work in the health and social services brings them into contact with bereaved families.

The charity provides a confidential caller-led service providing support and information to enable callers to make informed decisions and choices.

Each year the charity receives circa 2,000 bereavement-related telephone enquiries. These calls include requests from adults for help as they support an estimated 5,000 bereaved children and young people nationwide. Just over half the calls (54%) are from bereaved families and the other half (46%) from professionals. The reason for the calls is because a child has died (47% of calls), or because a child is bereaved following the death of a parent / carer (53% of calls).

Analysis of the information available from callers about the cause of death shows that users of the charity's services fall into three main groups of broadly equivalent size: the death of a baby; sudden, unexpected death (both of a child or of an adult that leaves behind a bereaved child); and death from cancer or other life limiting illness including pre-bereavement queries.

The Child Bereavement Charity resource ‘When someone special dies suddenly - for children under 7' has been Commended by the British Medical Association for the 2008 Patient Information Award (Printed Materials). The BMA Patient Information Award is part of the BMA medical book competition. It was established in 1997 to recognise quality in written patient information leaflets and small booklets. Its aims are to encourage the production and dissemination of accessible, well-designed and clinically balanced materials which will enhance patients' understanding of health issues and their ability to participate in decisions about their care.

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