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To welcome 2021 - after a year like never before - we thought it would be great to hear reflections from our Family Support Workers in each of our six care teams. Last year, due to the COVID-19 pandem...

As the country begins a third national lockdown, Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity is continuing to provide practical and emotional support to families caring for a seriously ill child in whatever way ...

As an extraordinary year comes to an end, we reflect on 12 months of our policy and influencing work. Increasingly a factor when families are referred for Rainbow Trust support, parental mental healt...

As a Rainbow Trust Family Support Worker, I sometimes attend the funerals of children I have supported. I know the importance of public mourning rituals; they occur in nearly all cultures. They help...

We all know that families who have a child with a terminal or life threatening illness must be going through an extremely difficult time. We understand that when a child dies the family are left facin...

Reflecting on the support I have given to families facing the death of their child I am aware that my presence in that moment, or in the time soon after has been the thing that many of them have value...