Funeral Industry News
-
Register Now to Receive Latest Updates – For All Funeral Directors, Burial Authorities, Cremation Authorities and Any Other Interested Parties
3rd April 2020 by funeral-industry-news
In the future, it will be our responsibility to register the business/organisation details of every member of Scotland’s funeral industry. For now, we just want our communications to reach as many funeral industry members as possible, in particular the unaffiliated businesses. Please register your business/organisation details here: http://eepurl.com/gQxqsn We have mailed out postcards to hundreds...
-
Changes to Funeral Support Benefits
18th September 2024 by funeral-industry-news
Forthcoming regulation changes to further support bereaved people Legislation laid in the Scottish Parliament will make improvements to the way Funeral Support Payment is delivered. The proposed changes include providing assistance for funerals abroad in exceptional circumstances, refining the approach to deducting funds from the deceased’s estate and introducing more flexibility for funerals outwith the...
-
Repatriation to Scotland: Changes to the medical requirements in England and Wales – Cremation Application Forms
6th September 2024 by funeral-industry-news
Repatriation For any burial or cremation in Scotland, a death must first be registered in accordance with the Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965. Such requirement in Scotland will not change following the introduction of the new medical examiner system in England and Wales. The legal requirements for Scottish purposes are set out in...
-
Guidance for Storage of the deceased by Funeral Directors prior to the issue of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death
15th August 2024 by funeral-industry-news
The Deaths in the Community Working Group have released guidance for funeral directors outlining what to do when caring for the deceased prior to the provision of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD) by a registered medical practitioner. There may be a delay for a number of reasons such as public holiday long...
-
Inspection of Burial, Cremation and Funeral Directors Consultation Analysis Report
15th July 2024 by funeral-industry-news
As you may know the Scottish Government held a collection of public consultations between 25 August – 17 November 2023 on proposals for different aspects of regulation of the funeral sector. The consultation analysis report for the inspection of burial, cremation and funeral directors is now available to view online. More information and links to...
-
Scottish Government recruiting for funeral director interviewees (£ compensation provided)
19th June 2024 by funeral-industry-news
The Scottish Government’s Burial and Cremation team is working alongside Storm ID (a digital design agency) to design and develop a new website to support the implementation of funeral sector regulation, including the proposed inspection and licensing regimes. Central to this work is establishing the needs of and requirements of its future users – these...
-
Public Consultations: Analysis Reports
13th May 2024 by funeral-industry-news
The Scottish Government launched a collection of public consultations on 25 August 2023 with proposals on different aspects of regulation of the funeral sector: Alkaline hydrolysis (‘water cremation’) Burial Inspection of burial, cremation and funeral directors Licensing of funeral directors. The consultations closed on Friday 17 November 2023. The consultation analysis report for burial is...
-
Public Consultations: Analysis Reports
26th April 2024 by funeral-industry-news
The Scottish Government launched a collection of public consultations on 25 August 2023 with proposals on different aspects of regulation of the funeral sector: Alkaline hydrolysis (‘water cremation’) Burial Inspection of burial, cremation and funeral directors Licensing of funeral directors. The consultations closed on Friday 17 November 2023. The consultations analysis reports for Alkaline hydrolysis...
-
Funeral Director Code of Practice: approved by The Scottish Parliament
20th February 2024 by funeral-industry-news
The Scottish Government is pleased to confirm that the draft Funeral Director Code of Practice (‘the Code’) received parliamentary approval on 31 January 2024. Please see the Scottish Government website for the approved Code. The Minister for Public Health & Women’s Health, Jenni Minto MSP, has written to funeral directors in Scotland to inform them...
-
Public consultations: Reminder
14th November 2023 by funeral-industry-news
The Scottish Government launched a collection of public consultations on 25 August 2023 on different aspects of regulation of the funeral sector: Alkaline hydrolysis (‘water cremation’) Burial Inspection of burial, cremation and funeral directors Licensing for funeral directors. The consultations are still available on the Scottish Government’s consultation hub, Citizen Space. The consultations will close on...
-
Public Consultation Events – Call for questions
17th October 2023 by funeral-industry-news
In our previous blog post, we advertised two public consultation events that the Scottish Government is hosting to give individuals the chance to discuss the collection of consultations on funeral sector regulation. We are now calling for your questions ahead of the events. We will do our best to answer these on the day alongside more general...
RSS
Email