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Bereavement services and support must sign up to an agreed set of standards, including ensuring they meet the diverse needs of the communities they serve.
NICE and SIGN must develop guidelines for the delivery of bereavement support at all levels
All public, private and third sector bodies supporting bereaved people must commit to tackling inequalities in access to emotional support following a bereavement
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In response to the challenges that people identified in understanding what bereavement support is out there and might help them, the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre, Cardiff has collaborated with national partners to produce a new resource, the Grief Support Guide. Based on research conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic and published on the National Bereavement Alliance website. This is available in multiple languages.
All UK Governments must commission further research to better understand the emotional support needs of people affected by bereavement with a particular focus on understanding how services can be improved for Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities and groups whose grief is disenfranchised.
Governments in each UK nation must invest 79p annually per person in the population for transforming bereavement services over the next 5 years, with a particular focus on better supporting Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities, and others who are currently poorly served.
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The Welsh Government are maintaining in the financial year 2023/24 a £1m Bereavement Support Grant and £420 for LHB Bereavement Co-ordination, as well as Hospice funding.