At the conference, organised by the Childhood Bereavement Network aspart of its Grief Matters for Children campaign, delegates also heardhow schools can play a supportive role to bereaved pupils and howbereavement and loss can be included in the curriculum.
The conference highlighted how bereavement can be a major issue forschools - with more than 350,000 children in school bereaved of aparent, brother or sister and 70 per cent of primary schools reportingat least one recently bereaved pupil on the school roll.
"Many bereaved children get excellent support in school, but others feelisolated and some are bullied. It's vital that staff feel equipped torespond to their needs," said Alison Penny, policy and communicationsco-ordinator at the Childhood Bereavement Network. "We organised the dayto give school staff and education advisers an idea of some of themodels of support and curriculum development that are working well."
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