What has happened to compliance with the law?
Photo by Niv Singer on Unsplash For the last five years, every funeral business and crematorium operator in the UK has been under statutory obligation to comply with the legally binding Funeral Market Investigation Order 2021. Details of the Order are at the end of this blog post, if anyone needs to refresh their memory. The Order came […]
Where are you all?
Photo by Luismi Sánchez on Unsplash Public outrage at the horror of the acts of Robert Bush at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors seems to have ebbed away since the flurry of headlines and wall to wall news coverage at the end of July. The devastation wreaked on so many unsuspecting people who trusted a funeral director to care […]
Not good enough
Photo by Marcus Winkler via Unsplash We took the decision last week to publish all the documents developed by our working group of exceptional funeral directors, which we have been attempting to get to government decision makers for 18 months. These documents are now all available from the Downloads page of this website. Across the UK, […]
Regulation of the funeral sector
No, it’s not happening yet. Our most recent communication from the Burial, Cremation and Exhumation Policy and Casework Team at the Ministry of Justice in May this year stated: “Government has been reviewing the issues and recommendations outlined in the Fuller Inquiry’s Phase 2 report and is considering the full range of options to ensure standards are maintained.” And […]
The Competition and Markets Authority’s Funeral Market Report – update
Disruptors. Not always a good thing.
A couple of thoughts
Those additional observations on the FSCSR consultation we mentioned in our previous post this week: 1. At the GFG, while we welcome any improvements in the funeral industry Codes of Practice, we despair at the length of time it has taken NAFD and SAIF to come up with revisions to existing industry codes to make them remotely […]
Researcher required
Funeral trade association calls for regulation
The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors has today issued a press release stating its position on the subject of regulation. SAIF members received an e-mail yesterday advising them that ‘after careful consideration we have decided that regulation across England and Wales is a good thing and welcome it’. The ‘careful consideration’ appears […]
The lion rampant?
Editor’s note: We received this blog post from Mark and publish it as we feel it raises matters of great concern to funeral consumers and practitioners alike. Out of courtesy, we provided the NAFD with an advance copy and invited them to comment. We were advised that their legal team required several statements made by […]
