Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
Home

Search

  • Donate
  • Members
  • Shop
  • About
    • Who we are
      • Our advisory group
      • Our staff
    • What we believe
    • What we do
      • Our priorities
        • Better access to support
        • Fairer bereavement benefits
          • Cohabiting parents and bereavement benefits
            • Read our open letter to the Joint Committee on Human Rights
        • Growing in Grief Awareness
        • LifeMatters taskforce
        • Planning Ahead
      • Research & evidence
        • Briefings
        • Consultation responses
        • Key statistics
          • Better bereavement data: our letter on behalf of the sector
          • Improving the data on bereaved children and young people
        • Reading lists
        • Research priorities
        • Research resources
      • News & opinion
      • Press releases
        • UK Commission on Bereavement
    • Contact us
    • Children's Grief Awareness Week
      • A history of Children's Grief Awareness Week
      • Children's Grief Awareness Week 2023
        • Making grieving children and young people a priority for change
      • Children's Grief Awareness Week 2022
        • Children's Grief Awareness Week 2022 webinar mini-series
        • Sharing Shapes 2022 Mural
      • Children's Grief Awareness Week 2021

    About

    The Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN) is the hub for those working with bereaved children, young people and their families across the UK.

    More
    • Who we are
    • What we believe
    • What we do
    • Contact us
    • Children's Grief Awareness Week
    Featured

    What we believe

  • Families & communities
    • Finding support local to you
      • Finding support local to you
      • National support services
    • For families
      • Managing a death and bereavement during Covid 19
      • For young people: if you have been bereaved
        • For young people: support in Ukrainian
      • For parents and carers: if you have been bereaved
      • Practicalities
      • Resources for families
      • Planning ahead for parents
      • Major incidents
    • For schools
      • Giving pupils choices
      • Growing in Grief Awareness
        • Why grief matters
        • Start your audit
        • Become a champion
        • Grief education - time to hear from school staff
      • Responding to a death
      • Teaching about death and loss
      • Developing policy and procedures
      • Training for school staff
      • Resources for schools
    • For friends

    If you need help around a death

    Advice and guidance for bereaved children, young people, their families, carers and communities.

    More
    • Finding support local to you
    • For families
    • For schools
    • For friends
    Featured

    Finding support local to you

  • Sector support
    • Covid-19
    • Crisis and conflict
    • Working with bereaved children
    • Setting up a service
    • Running a service
    • Evaluating a service
    • Training others
    • Jobs in the sector

    Support for the sector

    Supporting you to create a culture of compassion and support for bereaved children and young people.

    More
    • Covid-19
    • Crisis and conflict
    • Working with bereaved children
    • Setting up a service
    • Running a service
    • Evaluating a service
    • Training others
    • Jobs in the sector
    Featured

    Running a service

    Featured

    Evaluating a service

  • Get involved
    • Resources
      • Resources for families
      • Bereavement resources
        • Major incidents
          • Getting more help following a bereavement
          • Support for children and young people on the death of the Queen
      • Managing a death and bereavement during Covid 19
      • All Resources
    • Become a member
    • Members Area Login
    • Campaign with us
    • Donate
    • Shop
      • Become a Childhood Bereavement Network member
      • Bereavement resources
    • Training and events
      • Member events
    • Join the CBN Young People's Advisory Group

    Get Involved

    Become a member, share your voice, support our work.

    More
    • Resources
    • Become a member
    • Members Area Login
    • Campaign with us
    • Donate
    • Shop
    • Training and events
    • Join the CBN Young People's Advisory Group
    Featured

    Become a member

    Featured

    Training and events

What we believe

Image

We underpin our members’ work with essential support and representation: bringing them together across localities, disciplines and sectors to improve bereavement care for children and young people.

Our vision

Collectively, we share a vision that all children and young people in the UK, together with their caregivers, can easily access a choice of high quality local and national information, guidance and support to enable them to manage the impact of death on their lives.

Members' roles

All CBN members have a role to play in making this vision a reality. By joining CBN, members aim to collaborate to

  • improve the range and quality of bereavement support available to children, young people and those caring for them
  • increase access to childhood bereavement information, guidance and support services.

What we do

Centrally, CBN acts as the keystone for our members’ partnership by

  • advocating for bereaved children, young people and those supporting them, influencing policy and public understanding
  • supporting professionals to find and share the knowledge and resources they need to deliver high quality, accessible bereavement care
  • signposting families, professionals and the public to sources of bereavement support
  • generating new ideas and approaches to improving bereavement care for children

Our principles

  • We are a listening and learning organisation
  • We inform our work by the experience of children, young people, their families and those supporting them and the evidence from research
  • We add value to our members’ efforts
  • We work collaboratively both nationally and internationally

About

  • Who we are
  • What we believe
  • What we do
  • Contact us
  • Children's Grief Awareness Week
Back to top
Home
  • About
    • Who we are
    • What we believe
    • What we do
    • Contact us
    • Children's Grief Awareness Week
  • Families & communities
    • Finding support local to you
    • For families
    • For schools
    • For friends
  • Sector support
    • Covid-19
    • Crisis and conflict
    • Working with bereaved children
    • Setting up a service
    • Running a service
    • Evaluating a service
    • Training others
    • Jobs in the sector
  • Get involved
    • Resources
    • Become a member
    • Members Area Login
    • Campaign with us
    • Donate
    • Shop
    • Training and events
    • Join the CBN Young People's Advisory Group

Meet the NCB family

  • NCB Home

  • CDC Home

  • CBN Home

  • ABA Home

  • SWP Home

  • Research In Practice

  • LEAP

  • Special Educational Consortium

  • linkedin
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • youtube
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy statement
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookie Policy
  • Suppliers area
  • Contact us

Registered with Fundraising Regulator

© National Children's Bureau 2025. Registered charity No. 258825. Registered in England and Wales No. 952717.

Registered office: National Children’s Bureau, 23 Mentmore Terrace, Hackney, London E8 3PN. A Company Limited by Guarantee.

Site by Effusion