The Social Workers will also contact those with dependent children to offer support and they are willing to see families. The Home Care Nurses will contact the bereaved soon after death but the Social Workers will usually take up bereavement work that will be on-going. The Social Workers run small short-term bereavement groups for younger bereaved partners. These are held in the evenings. Experiences are shared during the evening as an attempt to help people to begin to come to terms with their bereavement.
Some groups continue to meet after formal sessions have ended.