Family support workers

Rachel and Jordan have four children, Sofia is six, Ava is four, and twins Theo and Daisy are two years old and, as with most of the families we support, they have been shielding during the pandemic. ...

For a family waiting for a life changing transplant the levels of anxiety are always high. Will the transplant come in time? Will the surgery and recovery go well? What will life be like afterwards? A...

As a Family Support Manager, I have worked with many families supporting them in crisis. While the parents are struggling with the news their child has been diagnosed with cancer or another life-threa...

I was once asked by a concerned parent what I thought the long-term impact would be on their other children, having a brother with cancer. This was an impossible question to answer as nobody can predi...

Angie has been at Rainbow Trust for 3 years and shares one of her working weeks with us. Monday I visited a mum whose seven-month-old baby had died. She is struggling most days as her husband wo...

Ali’s 12-week pregnancy scan revealed that one of their twins, Marlowe, was at high risk of having Down’s syndrome and that she had a hole in her heart. This heart condition made it difficult for M...