Loss and grief

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    National Grief Awareness Week 2022

    • Date published: 05 Dec 2022 by Katie Inglis
    In aid of National Grief Awareness Week 2022, Rainbow Trust Family Support Worker Rachel, shared some of her experience supporting families facing grief and bereavement. Can you tell me a little bit...
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    An absent presence

    • Date published: 02 Dec 2020 by Fiona Rankine
    Reflecting on the support I have given to families facing the death of their child I am aware that my presence in that moment, or in the time soon after has been the thing that many of them have value...
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    #Remember when

    • Date published: 14 Nov 2018 by Fiona Rankine
    In every classroom across the country there will be at least one bereaved child and for many of them it will be a sibling that has died. At Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity, we have the privilege of...
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    The value of tribute days

    • Date published: 20 May 2015 by Anna Jackson
    Remember that grief is not something you get over, it is something you walk through. My shoes are worn and my feet hurt from this walk. (Author unknown) In our society the death of a child is, tha...
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