LEHSS -Supporting Children with Loss and Bereavement

LEHSS - Supporting Children with Loss and Bereavement

This session forms part of the LEHSS Core and Refresher Training Pathway of Support

What is this training about?

This session will help you better understand loss and bereavement in children and young people, and outline how they can be affected by loss and when we should be concerned and offer support. The session will offer effective, evidence-based strategies for how to how to support young people who have experienced significant losses and bereavements, and ideas which you can use within a school setting and share with pupils and their families.

What will you learn and gain from this training:

·Knowledge about the common reactions to bereavement in children and young people.

·Understanding about the individual differences in how grief is experienced and what you might see in schools and colleges.

·Learn principles and strategies for how we might support children and families who have experienced loss or a bereavement.

What people have said about this training:

“The amount of information was great.”

“It really unpicked the experience of bereavement enabling increased understanding of the process from a child's point of view.”

PLEASE NOTE: this training session is only available to staff employed by schools and colleges within the Lancashire County Council area. Places cannot be allocated to people employed by other services or who work in schools outside this area.This training is fully funded by LCC and there is no charge to staff directly employed by a school or college within the LCC area.

Please use your school or college email on registration to demonstrate your eligibility.

Presentation slides and resources will be shared with all attendees after each session. We aim to foster a safe, confidential space in our training sessions where attendees are comfortable to contribute and share experiences if they wish.

We do not allow the use of AI note-taking tools within our training sessions, and if AI tools join a meeting they will be removed and excluded from the session.