{"id":27498,"date":"2023-02-19T07:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T07:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/02\/19\/funeral-fund-nobody-prepares-for-the-death-of-a-child\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T07:27:01","slug":"funeral-fund-nobody-prepares-for-the-death-of-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=27498","title":{"rendered":"Funeral fund: \u2018Nobody prepares for the death of a child\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">More than 100 families have applied to a fund to help pay the cost of a child&#8217;s funeral since it was introduced in Northern Ireland last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Up until June 2022, Northern Ireland had been the only part of the UK without the fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ulster Unionist Party councillor Julie Flaherty lost her son Jake 10 years ago. She campaigned to have the Child Funeral Fund introduced in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Adam Watson was nine years old when he died last August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">His parents Sara and David used the fund and say they want to raise awareness about its existence for other bereaved families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">If you need help or advice about the issues in this video you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/actionline\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC Action Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video journalist: Niall McCracken<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-64577049?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] More than 100 families have applied to a fund to help pay the cost of a child&#8217;s funeral since it was introduced in Northern Ireland last year. Up until &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}