Welcome to the counselling tutor podcast.

The must listen to podcast for students of counselling and psychotherapy.

Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.

Hello and welcome to this special edition of the counselling tutor podcast.

I'm Rory and Ken is taking a well-earned break.

I'm joined today by Letitia Perna, who is the Director of Services for Winston's Wish charity.

So, Letitia, you're very welcome.

Hello, Rory. Lovely to be here. So just tell us a little bit about Winston's Wish. What's

Winston's Wish about? Of course. So Winston's Wish is the first childhood UK bereavement charity.

We are 30 years old this year, which is quite exciting. is the first childhood UK bereavement charity.

We are 30 years old this year, which is quite exciting.

And we are effectively support and advice and guidance for children and young people,

zero to 25 who have lost someone important to them,

as well as the adults, whether that be parents or family members and friends or professionals who support them. So we provide bereavement support in a

plethora of ways, as well as advice and guidance around talking about death and dying.

Well, a very serious topic, but a very needed resource and, you know, what a fantastic

charity to support young people.

So in terms of prevalence of childhood bereavement, you know, what are the statistics?

Yeah, that's a great question, Rory.

And one that is actually really hard to answer, and I'll tell you in a little bit why.

But to give you a sense, roughly, we've about nearly a million zero to 25-year-olds in the UK may have experienced the death of a parent, brother or sister, to quite significant numbers.

More than 100 children and young people are bereaved of our parents every single day in the UK.

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