Independent Thinking on Loss

Written from the personal experience of a parent and his three children, Independent Thinking on Loss: A Little Book about Bereavement for Schools” details the ways in which schools can help their pupils come to terms with the death of a parent.
A child loses a parent every twenty-two minutes in the UK. Childhood bereavement brings with it a whole series of challenges for the children involved challenges they will deal with all their lives. The research shows teachers want to help, but don't know what to do.
This book is a start.
Written by “Independent Thinking” founder Ian Gilbert together with his three children, “Independent Thinking on Loss” is a personal account of the way educational institutions tried and succeeded, tried and failed and sometimes didn't try at all to help William, Olivia and Phoebe come to terms with the death of their mother.
Several months after their mother's death, BBC's Newsround aired a brave and still controversial programme in which four children talked about their losses. This prompted Ian and his children to sit down and think about their own experiences and draw up a fifteen-strong list of dos and don'ts that could help steer schools towards a better understanding of what is needed from them at such a difficult time..