What we do

Supporting Families

Support and information helpline
We offer a confidential support and information line - 01494 446648 - which provides help and guidance for bereaved families and professionals, signposting to other agencies, support and resources.

The phone line is open weekdays from 9am until 5pm, and trained CBC members of staff respond to calls, letters and emails from distressed families and professionals seeking help.

Our interactive website
Our website holds a wealth of information for bereaved families including a seachable database of national and local support organisations.

Our online forums include a families discussion forum and a young people's advisory forum which offer a welcoming enviroment where bereaved families and young people can share their experiences.

Family Bereavement Support Service
The charity offers a Buckinghamshire based Bereavement Support Service for families where a baby or child has died or where children and young people are bereaved.

The service provides a range of responses including:

• telephone support and guidance on paticular areas of concern for families either pre-bereavement, in the immediate aftermath of a death or in the longer term
• individual, couple and family support sessions
• parents' support groups for baby and child death
• Young People's Advisory Group
• CHYPS groups for bereaved children with their surviving parent/carer, initially established with funding from the DfES.

The charity welcomes donations to support the continuation of this much needed service.

Resources
The Child Bereavement Charity produces books, DVDs, CD-Roms, workbooks and packs for bereaved families and professionals.  These have been devised with input from families and children, and many of our resources have recieved British Medical Association recognition for educational merit.

Please do get in touch if you have been bereaved and would like to advise on any aspect of our work on 01494 446648.

Educating Professionals

We believe that by learning from children and parents, professionals can help at a time of crisis and enhance the support they provide to grieving families.

CBC is unique amongst bereavement charities in that one of its primary areas of work is to train and support professionals whose work brings them into contact with grieving families.

Every year, through our programme of workshops, courses and conferences, we train thousands of professionals from various disciplines in the statutory sectors - nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, teachers and school staff, police and emergency service employees, coroners' officers, social and children's workers - as well as those working in the voluntary sector.

For further details of our comprehensive training programme click here, email training@childbereavement.org.uk or call general training enquiries on 01494 479750.