NAFD Chief Executive Alan Slater and Debbie Kerslake, Chief Executive of Cruse Bereavement Care, have delivered a joint letter to No.10 Downing Street calling for the ‘other funeral expenses’ element of the Social Fund Funeral Payment to be index linked to inflation – a first step to fairness in tackling funeral poverty. Over the last…
The Scottish government has confirmed a case of Ebola in an individual in Scotland, who travelled to Glasgow from Sierra Leone. The patient will be transferred for treatment in isolation at the Royal Free hospital in London. The UK has well established and practised infection control procedures for dealing with cases of imported infectious disease.…
The NAFD has been shortlisted for Best UK Trade Association, Best Newsletter (for Funeral Director Monthly) and Best Exhibition for the National Funeral Exhibition, at the inaugural Association Excellence Awards. The Association Excellence Awards recognise individuals, teams and initiatives and highlight excellence in how associations operate and serve their members, focusing on best practice in…
Social Fund cap unchanged since 2003 New Bill to be proposed in Parliament today More than half of those who apply for a Funeral Payment each year are turned down The National Association of Funeral Directors today welcomes a report by Royal London calling for the Government to index-link the Social Fund Payment to help…
I would like to raise some concerns regarding the article ‘How to save money on a funeral – and still give them the send-off they deserve’ by Toby Walne in last week’s Financial Mail on Sunday (23rd November 2014). The National Association of Funeral Directors, which represents more than 80% of the UK’s funeral directors,…
Whilst the risk of an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the UK remains low, in response to an enquiry by the NAFD the Department of Health has provided advice for funeral directors in the event that they are asked to handle a deceased person known to have had Ebola (a Viral Haemorrhagic Fever). Please…
