The NAFD’s one-day training workshops to support funeral professionals in achieving excellence in mortuary management and the care of deceased people offers targeted programmes for both FSOs, drivers and bearers and for funeral directors, mortuary managers and supervisors. Delivered online over six hours, by an experienced NHS pathologist trainer and an experienced NAFD funeral training…
NAFD Past President John Adams has achieved a significant breakthrough in his campaign to include bereavement education in the National Curriculum. The UK Parliament’s Petitions Committee re-selected his petition for a future debate on Monday 2 December at 4.30pm after it was initially postponed due to the general election. The petition, which secured more than 11,000…
During the National Funeral Directors Association convention in New Orleans in October, NAFD President Jenny Gilbert-Trigg and NAFD CEO Andrew Judd were delighted to accept an award from outgoing NFDA President Dutch Nie II recognising the NAFD’s 120th anniversary. We would like to thank the NFDA for this beautiful award; we value the special and…
Following concerns raised with the Ministry of Justice about the difficulties some applicants may encounter in completing Cremation Form 1, the Government has decided that funeral directors in England and Wales may continue to complete the application form on their client’s behalf, providing that: they discuss the contents of the form with the client prior…
You should never be asked to pay to watch a funeral livestream There has been a rise in a worrying trend of fraudsters targeting bereaved people in a range of funeral Facebook scams. How does the scam work? The scam, like a lot of them, preys on vulnerable people and those who are an easy…
In response to four Parliamentary Questions on the regulation of the funeral sector by Alexander Stafford MP (Cons. Rother Valley), Mike Freer, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) has today responded: “We have accepted that some form of regulation of the funeral sector is required. My officials have therefore been working on a plan to assess…
