Children’s Grief Awareness Week 2026: Keeping Connected
Children’s Grief Awareness Week is an opportunity to recognise bereaved children and young people, amplify their voices, and highlight the need for accessible, timely and tailored grief support available to all. This year’s theme, ‘Keeping Connected’, focuses on the importance of nurturing connections with friends and family, talking about and remembering the person who has died, and finding support networks amongst others with similar experiences. This week reminds us that no young person should have to face grief alone.
Keeping connected is central to the support we offer at SeeSaw. Through advice over the phone, home visits and face to face support, we help children and their families navigate grief together. Our guidance and training for schools and professionals help strengthen the network around a bereaved child. Our online resources also offer help, from advice to parents and carers on how to support their child managing difficult emotions, to offering practical ways children can remember their person who died.
“SeeSaw has helped me continuously throughout these sessions, showing me there is hope and there is a way to continue your relationship with that person who’s died. This has been the most impactful thing. Weirdly, my relationship feels stronger than ever and I can understand him (Dad) so much more deeply now.”
Marking the week at SeeSaw
Throughout Children’s Grief Awareness Week, we’ll be sharing ways parents, carers and professionals can support bereaved children and young people and help them keep connected. We’ll also be sharing stories and advice from our Young Ambassadors, alongside ways you can get involved and mark this important week with us.
We’ll be at the Westgate Centre in Oxford on Saturday 21st November, from 10am to 4pm. Joined by some of our amazing Young Ambassadors, we’ll be shining a spotlight on Children’s Grief Awareness Week, sharing information about SeeSaw’s support across Oxfordshire and selling our new Christmas cards. Come and say hello to the team and support us during this important week.
The message of ‘Keeping Connected’ matters all year round. Whether you are a friend, family member or teacher, staying in touch and making space for a young person’s memories can help show that you care. Together, we can help bereaved children and young people feel heard, understood and less alone.
