Caring for a child at the end of life

Together for Short Lives has published two new guides:

• Caring for your child at the end of life: a guide for parents and carers
• Caring for a child at end of life: A guide for professionals on the care of children and young people before death, at the time of death and after death

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To Absent Friends

To Absent Friends is over for another year, and a range of activities took place across Scotland. The festival opened on the night of 31st October with the lighting of a illuminated lily garden at Dundee University and formally closed with Love, Loss and Cake, a wonderful jazz concert at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh, although events have continued throughout the month. Have a look at our To Absent Friends gallery to see more of what went on.

Did you attend or take part in any To Absent Friends activities this year? If so, please let us know what you thought in this two minute survey so we can make it bigger and better next year.

And remember it's not to soon to start planning to do something for next year's festival. Book it in your calendar now, 1 - 7 November 2020!

The Truacanta Project

The eleven shortlisted communities for our Truacanta Project have been busy with ideas on how to improve people's experiences of death, dying and bereavement in their community. They are all working towards the December application deadline to become one of the four communities we'll work more closely with over the next two years.

Each community has been keeping us posted on developments via our Truacanta blog. In the two latest posts:

• Anne MacDonald told us how organisations in the Highlands are linking up and listening to what people are telling them about death, dying, loss and care.
• Linda Sterry of Truacanta Dundee talked about the drive and compassion felt by the organisations and individuals involved with that community.

Find out more about the Truacanta Project here.

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Education/development fund for nurses

Applications are now open for the General Nursing Council for Scotland (Education) Fund and Margaret Callum Rodger Award 2020-21. The awards are an education and learning opportunity for registered nurses and midwives to undertake educational developments, study tours or carry out small scale projects, all of which must make a difference to patient or client care. The closing date for applications is 23 January 2020.

New website - "talkabout"

Marie Curie has published a new website to accompany its current public awareness campaign encouraging people to talk about death.

New report from dignity in dying

Dignity in Dying commissioned What matters to me People living with terminal and advanced illness on end-of-life choices, a newly published YouGov report looking at the views of adults living with advanced or terminal illness on assisted dying.

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Paediatric End of Life Care Network (PELiCaN) Introductory Roadshows

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