With less than nine months to go until NFE 2024, only a handful of exhibition spaces remain, with more than 200 exhibitors lined up to showcase their innovative products, services, and support to the funeral profession at Stoneleigh from Thursday 10 – Saturday 12 June 2024. NFE is a respected global platform for the funeral…
In September, the NAFD submitted a detailed statement to the Independent Inquiry into the crimes of David Fuller. The thirteen-page statement, written by Director of Policy and Public Affairs Rachel Bradburne, was accompanied by a copy of the NAFD inspectorate team code, a copy of the NAFD’s ‘Picking up the Pieces’ report into systemic delays…
NAFD President John Adams, on the final day of his presidential year, urged funeral directors across the UK to help maintain the pressure on Parliament to ensure bereavement education is considered for addition to the Religious, Health and Social Education (RHSE) curriculum in a forthcoming consultation. Click here to download the letter. Find who your…
Research by the National Association of Funeral Directors into delays and capacity crises shows funeral directors unable to protect bereaved families from a fragmented death management system that is struggling to cope with the needs of the nation. The report, entitled ‘Picking up the pieces’, includes feedback from more than 1,000 funeral homes, across all…
The government has confirmed the full introduction of the statutory medical examiner system in England will now commence from April 2024, a delay of twelve months from the original implementation date of April 2023. In her statement to Parliament, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Maria Caulfield added: “The changes will put all of the medical…
New policy report recommends all children in England should receive grief education at school As part of an ongoing collaboration between the University of Bristol, Child Bereavement UK and Childhood Bereavement Network, a new policy report has been published which demonstrates the need to integrate grief education into the statutory curriculum in England, consolidating decades…
