The rationale for this study arose from the researcher’s own practice as a children’s hospice counsellor, being given the challenge of providing emotional support to all those wishing to access a counselling service within a children’s hospice. How could one counsellor fulfil such a responsibility? What was meant by the term “support?” What part did the hospice’s multi-disciplinary team play within the provision of this support? Such questions, the researcher felt, needed to be put to a wider audience and the aim of this study was to examine children’s hospice counsellors’ practice of assessing needs and implementing pre and post bereavement support to children/young people and their families who access a U.K. children’s hospice service. A phenomenological approach was adopted and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with seven children’s hospice counsellors were transcribed verbatim. The researcher identified salient information and categorised forming themes using thematic analysis. Quotes were selected that captured the semantics of these themes.The main findings were that pre-bereavement support activities were being provided by members of the hospices’ multi-disciplinary teams. The assessment of needs during the this stage was found to be carried out by members of the nursing staff encompassing medical as well as psycho-social needs. It was also discovered that children’s hospice counsellors were more actively engaged in post-bereavement support and informally assessing bereavement needs. In addition, bereavement needs assessment was being carried out by a variety of professionals who had had some involvement with the family during the pre-bereavement stage.Implications of the findings suggested that counsellors could be more actively involved in pre-bereavement assessment of families’ needs. It was also indicated from the results that in-depth training on anticipatory grief and the grieving process, as well as supervision of other professionals supporting family members, could be delivered by children’s hospice counsellors.It was recommended that the subject of assessment of both pre and post bereavement needs of the diverse client groups accessing support services be opened up for wider debate and dialogue within the arena of children’s hospice services and paediatric palliative care.

The aim of the diploma thesis is the processing of project documentation for the construction of children's hospice. The building is located in Opava, specifically in the Jaktař district. Acess to the building is from street Karafiátová on building 2121/1, 2119, 2118, 2117, 2122/1. The children's hospice is a health and social facility in which relief care and facilities for a child suffering from a serious illness will be provided. The ground plan of its object is reminiscent of a person with open arms, which leads to the hospice garden, where a memorial site will be created. The capacity of the hospice is 10 rooms for patients, which will be connected to the rooms of family members. There will also be 4 separate rooms for patients, where it will be possible to place an extra bed. The children's hospice has two above-ground and one basement. The building will be built next to the hospital in Opava and is intended to expand the services provided by palliative care not only in the Moravian-Silesian Region, but throughout the Czech Republic, in which none of these buildings is yet in operation. External walls of the basement are reinforced concrete monolithic, the rest of the external walls are made of ground brick blocks with mineral insulation. The ceiling structures of all floors are monolithic reinforced concrete slabs. The roofs of the building are flat, above the single-storey part a vegetated flat roof is designed and above the second above-ground floor there is a flat roof loaded with aggregate. There is wall structural system.