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Surprisingly, we do not have annual statistics on the number of children and young people who are bereaved, but the Childhood Bereavement Network has estimated that more than 46,000 children and young people are bereaved of a parent each year in the UK; that is about 127 each day. If you take a representative sample in any school today, about one in 29 children will have been bereaved of a parent or sibling at some point in their childhood. Some 70% of primary schools have at least one recently bereaved pupil on the roll.