This lunchtime webinar will focus on the issues for social workers working with those dying and bereaved during wave three of Covid-19 as well as highlighting and sharing knowledge generated through recent social work practice. Areas addressed include:

• Guidance for bereavement care – Predeath/ Around the time of death/after death;
• Issues particular to wave three, e.g., increased stress due to increased transmissibility;
• Legacy for social workers in other services who will be responding to the needs of the bereaved in the future.

Our speakers on the day are Niamh Finucane (Co-ordinator of Social Work and Bereavement Services, St. Francis Hospice Dublin) and Irene Murphy (Director of Bereavement and Family Support Services, Marymount Hospice).