New research from NCB, conducted on behalf of the Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN), has found that 3.5 per cent (one in 29) of five- to 16-year-olds have been bereaved of a parent or sibling - roughly one per school classroom - and 6.3 per cent (one in 16) have experienced the death of a close friend.
The research took a closer look at data from the Mental Health of Children and Young People in Great Britain 2004 study, published by the Office for National Statistics in 2005. It reveals that children who have faced the death of a parent, sibling or friend are more likely than their peers to have gone through other stressful events in their lives, such as serious illness or having a parent with a financial crisis or mental illness. Bereaved children were also more likely to have changed schools or been excluded at some point in their past.
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