{"id":232669,"date":"2026-01-07T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232669\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:25:06","slug":"lincolnshire-child-grief-counselling-service-faces-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232669\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincolnshire child grief counselling service faces closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clare Reynolds, a clinical supervisor at the charity, told the LDRS  she feared there would be no help available to children going through the toughest time of their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The NHS says there are other options available, but that&#8217;s not what schools are telling us,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are devastated that we might have to close. We are the only service that goes directly into schools, including after the death of a student or staff member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t make sense financially either, as it will put more strain on the NHS&#8217;s services. We can do a lower-level intervention before grief has escalated into mental health problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity, which is based at Lincoln&#8217;s Carlton Centre, employs nine qualified counsellors and offered over 1,000 free sessions last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reynolds said she hoped LPFT would reconsider, or that other funding could be found from businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clare Reynolds, a clinical supervisor at the charity, told the LDRS she feared there would be no help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-232669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}