The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that from February 9 2023 cohabiting parents will be able to claim bereavement benefits to help them bring up dependent children.
Babies, children and young people make up a third of all people in the UK. While the vast majority of children were not at high risk from the virus itself, they paid a high price during the pandemic.
Campaigners are calling for a renewed focus on the children who have lost their parent or carer during Covid-19, warning their plight has dwindled in the public consciousness as the pandemic desensitises us to loss and grief.
