PROJECT
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PURPOSE
To help bereaved children cope with the death of a close relative
FUNDING
Around £3,600 per child, funded from April 2012 for five years from a £1.1m grant from the Big Lottery Fund's Realising Ambition programme
BACKGROUND
Around 41,000 UK children experience the death of a parent each year, the Childhood Bereavement Network estimates. Bereaved children are about 55 per cent more likely than others to have a diagnosable mental health disorder and more than 60 per cent more likely to have been excluded from school, according to a 2009 study by the National Children's Bureau.
In 2011, child bereavement charity Winston's Wish created a new programme designed to reverse these trends.
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