Childline advise when someone dies, there's no right or wrong way you should feel. Everyone experiences bereavement (the loss that people feel) differently. But you don’t have to cope on your own, Childline are always here for you:

 

• grieving and dealing with loss
• how to cope when someone dies
• help your child say goodbye
• when a death is unexpected
• reactions to losing someone you love
• who you can talk to
• saying goodbye to someone who has died

 

Marie Curie advise that you tailor your answers to your child’s age, stage of development and their previous experience of death you shouldn’t go too far wrong. Above all, try to be honest. Children find dishonesty far more difficult to deal with:

 

• questions about death
• questions about what happens after death
• questions about funerals
• questions about the person who died
• questions about how they will be affected
• questions about who will take care of them
• questions about the future
• further information

 

Cruse Bereavement Care advise the nature of a child’s understanding of death and bereavement will be different at different stages of development:

 

• birth to six months
• six months to two years
• two years to five years
• five years to ten years
• teenager
• key points to remember

The parenting support section provides advice, support, tips and all aspects of parenting:

• Stress and anxiety (child)
• Stress and anxiety (parent)
• Talking with teenagers
• Worried about a child

Getting the right help at the right time - contact Family Connect now!

Online enquiry form

• Telephone: 01952 385385
• Email: [email protected]
• Text: 07797 875385

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Cruse Bereavement Care

• Telephone: 0844 4779400

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Health Visitors 0 - 5 years - helping parents with their under 5's

• Telephone: 01952 580375
• Text: 07964 134107

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Health Visitor Advice Line

• Telephone: 01952 580375

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Hope House

• Telephone: 01691 671999

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School Nursing Service

• Telephone: 01952 621340