‘You never stop grieving’: why bereaved parents need more than two weeks off work

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‘You never stop grieving’: why bereaved parents need more than two weeks off work
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Under the new Jack’s law, workers who lose a child will finally get the right to statutory paid leave. But it won’t help in all cases – and many feel it doesn’t go far enough

Carrie thought she was ready to go back to work four weeks after the death of Siobhán, the daughter she and her husband lost to brain cancer at seven months old. But, in reality, she wasn’t. “I really struggled to cope,” she says. “I was a teacher and there was nowhere to hide: I had to deal with children, parents and colleagues all day, every day. There was no downtime and no office for me to retreat to.

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