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Did you know?
- Ave 600,000 UK deaths per annum
+ Covid19 deaths 2020/21 – approx. 130,000 = 730,000 deaths - One person dies every minute in the uk
- Every 22 minutes a parent dies, leaving 112 children left bereaved every day
- The uk does not have a statutory bereavement policy for all schools
- 85% of young people between 20 and 24 years old who take their own life have had a bereavement *(1)
- 85% of 300 universities recently surveyed do not have a bereavement policy in place *(2)
- A significant risk factor of suicide when someone is bereaved through suicide
- The bereaved often say they feel as though they are going mad – a need to normalise grief through peer support
- Risk factors: isolation, loneliness, trauma, ptsd, alcohol, drug abuse, self-harm
- 95% of young offenders have had an average of 6 bereavements by the time they are 18 years old *(3)
- (1) manchester university study
- (2) bbc sounds research
- (3) revolving doors study