Funding for Bereavement Support - Find a freedom of information request

This Freedom of Information request centres around the issue of bereavement and seeks to understand the level of support that is offered to bereaved adults commissioned by your LA. For all questions please do not include hospice provision within your answers unless you have contracts with hospices to deliver care that is not just restricted to family or friends of hospice patients. I am focused on bereavement support directly funded by the LA.
If these questions are not relevant because bereavement support in your area are commissioned by another body (e.g. the CCG), please indicate that below so that I can contact that organisation.

What is meant by ‘bereavement support’:

• Counselling services
• Emotional support services
• Support groups
• Peer/one to one support
• Telephone, email, online forum support
• Information and advice

We do not mean bereavement services, e.g. burials, cremations, funerals

Funding for bereavement support

1. Did you directly provide any bereavement support at any point in the last three financial years?
If yes, please indicate which years.

2. Did you commission or provide any grant funding to any organisation that provide bereavement support at any point in the last three years? If yes, please indicate which years.

3. How much money, if any, did you allocate for directly providing bereavement services in each of the last three financial years?

4. How much money, if any, did you allocate for commissioning/grant funding of bereavement services in each of the last three financial years? (Please list grant and contract amounts separately)

5. Are you aware of other organisations/bodies in the area covered by your LA that commission bereavement services? E.g. CCG? If yes, please indicate which organisations these are.

6.
a. Have you commissioned any additional organisations or provided any additional grant funding to provide bereavement support directly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Please include organisations you have existing contracts with but have increased the amount of funding you have given due to the pandemic situation.

b. If yes, please outline how much money and to how many organisations your LA has given, and over what time period (e.g. one-year contract, two-year contract)?

Bereavement Services
7. Which organisations do you currently financially contract or provide grant funding to, to supply bereavement services?

8. Please can you tell us the number of adults who benefitted from bereavement services in your area in each of the last three financial years? Please include, where possible, an age profile within this.

9. Have you undertaken any mapping or reviews of the availability of both formal and informal bereavement support services available in your area? If you are able, please do include any links to this work.

Should answering this request exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ under the FOI Act please prioritise questions 4, 6 and 7

Please note however this information is not routinely collected or recorded centrally in the detail requested.

Some of the requested information is available online at the following links:

https://lincolnshire.connecttosupport.org/s4s/WhereILive/Council?pageId=17&search=bereavement

https://lincolnshire.connecttosupport.org/coronavirus-20/bereavement/

https://lincolnshire.connecttosupport.org/coronavirus/ 

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/deaths/funeral-advice-support/2