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Yesterday Petitions Committee hosted a debate on children and bereavement including the petition to require schools to provide age-appropriate education to help children understand death as a part of life. We welcome this important debate highlighting the need for grief education.

Thank you Lee Barron for leading this vital debate.

Our Senior Policy and Research Manager Jamie Thunder wrote an article on the #CostofDyingCrisis for Public Sector Focus Link below 👇👇👇 flickread.com/edition/html/i…


We are very grateful to Luke Taylor MP for raising our research in Parliament today that found that 22% of unpaid end of life carers live in poverty following bereavement - we look forward to hearing back from Sir Stephen Timms regarding our proposal to extend Carer's Allowance soon!

Research is from Nuffield Trust and Health Economics Unit, commissioned by Marie Curie . To read more, visit: bit.ly/3CDfhDc


📢 We're excited to announce our next Research Grants Scheme – Improving PeoLC in Hospitals. We’re looking to fund research that focuses on themes identified by the PEoLC James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership: Improving quality of care, and discharge, for people with

