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Higher Education: Bereavement Counselling

Question for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UIN HL5523, tabled on 9 March 2015

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that adequate bereavement support is available in universities.

Answered on

19 March 2015

Universities are independent bodies and Government does not intervene in their day to day management. Whilst higher education is an adult environment it is a long-established principle that universities have a duty of care to their students. As such they will determine what welfare and counselling services they need to offer their students.

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills