Death Education: A Missing Part of the Curriculum

What if we didn’t wait for children to experience loss before teaching them how to understand it?

In this episode of It’s a Death Sentence, we talk openly about a landmark change coming to UK education. From September 2026, grief and bereavement education will become part of the statutory RSHE curriculum, and we wanted to take time to unpack what that really means - for schools, for children, and for families.

We speak directly to teachers, school leaders, pastoral teams and anyone working with children and young people. Together, we explore why this change matters, what the new guidance includes, and how schools can deliver it with confidence, care and creativity rather than fear.

We also share why this shift aligns so closely with everything this podcast stands for - normalising conversations about death, dying, loss and grief, and giving people language and understanding before they need it most.

What We Explore

- Why Grief Belongs in the Classroom: We look at the scale of childhood bereavement in the UK and why acknowledging loss as a natural part of life is long overdue in education.

- Language, Fear and Getting It Wrong: We explore why adults often avoid talking about death with children, how unclear language creates confusion, and why saying the words ‘death’, ‘dying’ and ‘dead’ matters.

- Supporting Schools Through Mini Pod Workshops: We introduce our mini pod workshops and explain how podcasting can offer a safe, age-appropriate and creative way for pupils to explore grief, ask questions and build emotional literacy.

If we can help create a generation that knows how to talk about loss, ask for support, and sit with difficult emotions, then this curriculum change has the potential to be genuinely transformative.

If you work in a school and want to explore how our mini pod workshops could support your delivery of the new RSHE guidance from 2026, we’d love to hear from you.

It's A Death Sentence shares real stories of life after loss and is produced by Urban Podcasts. Listener discretion is always advised.

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