When a parent or carer dies, children often feel like the odd one out among their friends. In fact childhood bereavement is more common than many think.
Estimates prepared by the Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN), using census and mortality data, suggest more than 40,000 children and young people face the death of a parent each year in the UK. Many others are bereaved of a brother, sister or someone else close to them. One 2015 study found more than a third of schools in one local authority area had at least one pupil who was recently bereaved of a parent or carer.
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