Regulation in the funeral industry will help bereaved families by ensuring they are offered the highest standards of care at all time, a funeral directors’ conference will hear this weekend (1 April 2017). Mandie Lavin, chief executive of the National Association of Funeral Directors, will tell delegates that “public trust and confidence” in funeral directors…
The National Association has added its voice to those of leading bereavement charities Cruse Bereavement Care, Widowed and Young and the Child Bereavement Network, in asking the government to hold off on the introduction of new bereavement payments that will see parents who care for children after the death of a spouse or partner lose…
It’s World Book Day today (2 March 2016) and, as in any aspect of life, a well written, thought-provoking book can be of real help to people at a time of loss. The NAFD is often advised of books, written about bereavement and grief, that people have found to be profoundly useful. Please click below for…
Funeral directors from Scotland and beyond are encouraged to attend a special debate this Spring, which is set to help shape forthcoming regulation of the sector in Scotland. The Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016 paved the way for a statutory inspector of funeral directors, new regulations and possible licensing – a first anywhere in…
It was encouraging that the ITV documentary ‘Funerals: A Costly Undertaking?’, broadcast on 3 November 2016, highlighted the importance of the work undertaken by funeral directors to support families in saying farewell in the way that they want to, and that there is much more to a good funeral arrangement than handing a coffin catalogue…
Sadly, we will all die one day. Yet very few people in the UK put any plans in place for their funeral, no matter how simple their wishes might be. A result of this reluctance to plan ahead for the inevitable, as Royal London’s Funeral Cost Index has revealed today (19 October 2016), is that…
