About smallgrief

Why it exists

Around one in every class of children is living with the death of a parent, brother or sister, and many more with the death of a grandparent, friend or pet. Most grieving children don't need therapy. They need honest words, steady adults, safe ways to feel, and ways to stay connected to the person who died. smallgrief puts those in one place, for children, parents and schools.

Privacy and safety

• Only parents and carers set up a child's space. Children never give their surname, birthday, school or photo.
• Everything your child writes, draws or records stays on the device it was made on. It is never sent to us or anyone else.
• Your account keeps your email, your child's first name, age group, who died, your region and your controls, and a summary of what your child has done: which activities and workshops, their daily feelings weather, and the date of any safety alert. How they died is never stored in the account. You can delete your account, and everything in it, at any time.
• No advertising, no tracking, no profiling, no chat, no contact with other users, no streaks or badges.
• If a child writes something that suggests they may not be safe, they are shown help straight away and their grown-up sees an alert, never the words.
• Designed with the UK Age Appropriate Design Code and US COPPA in mind: high privacy by default, data kept to a minimum.

Read our full privacy notice and safeguarding policy.

Where the ideas come from

Guidance is drawn from Understanding Child and Adolescent Grief: Supporting Loss and Facilitating Growth (ed. Carrie Arnold, Routledge, 2018) and the research it cites. Several activities adapt ideas from Child Bereavement UK and Kent Educational Psychology Service, credited on each one. All wording is our own.