Thanks Helen for the taking the time to provide your comments.  Through this project we would hope to change culture around bereavement care opening up communication about the loss and access support when needed as early as possible but also to support normal grieving process.  The workshop aims to normalise but also validate the young persons experiences.  As it is done in a single session format it means it is accessible at times when needed as young people can attend once or more as needed.  We would hope to train up professionals to run the workshop, increasing the capacity resource across systems to ensure there is an increase in access to supports across the trust.

Your comments from a health visiting perspective are appreciated.  By bringing the systems around the young people we can provide an opportunity for them to meet people who can provide bereavement care - real connections rather than paper referral.  In our pilot we ran the young people following meeting people from nursing, psychology and Cruse, reached out to school nursing after the workshop for the first time to access their own support.  We will keep you updated through this forum on the progress of our project.