Project
Family Support Service
Funding
An estimated £200,000 a year from voluntary donations
Background
Ever since Richard's House Children's Hospice opened 12 years ago, family support has been a key part of its work with children with life-limiting illnesses.
But when senior nurse Jon Wheater joined as the hospice's director of family and care services two years ago, he realised staff needed to engage more with children and their families between stints of residential care and reach out to new families who previously had not seen the hospice as a place for them. "Parents were saying 'I know it's where children go to die, but I don't want to think about that yet'," he says.
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