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The article describes how the Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN) is developing an outcome tool that can be used across the services working with bereaved children and young people in Great Britain. The CBN is due to collaborate with groups interested in bereavement service to explore the changes they make for grieving children and young people. Besides, it will synthesize their views on the objectives of the services and be talking to the children and young people, along with their parents.

The article reports on the importance of local support of the bereaved families to lessen the difficulties of recovery based on the result of the study conducted by the National Children's Bureau (NCB) and the Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN) in Great Britain.

In this article the author discusses aspects of the bereavement support for children and young people in Great Britain. She notes that research from National Children's Bureau (NCB) found that 3.5 per cent of five to 16-year-olds have bereaved parents or siblings and experience stressful events like serious illness. She suggests that local authorities need to know these statistics so that they will be able to act on the problems it poses.

The article focuses on the Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN), a national and multi-professional network of organizations and individuals working in the field of childhood bereavement in Great Britain. CBN promotes the interests of bereaved children and their families, at the same time encourages the development of quality support for them. It includes services such as a directory of support organisations and a point of contract for people who try to set up a childhood bereavement service.