Programme

MONDAY 3rd JULY – Sessions sponsored by APCC
09.30 hrs onwards	Arrival and registration
11.00 hrs	Exhibition opens
12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area
14.15 hrs	Opening of Event by Harvey Thomas CBE, Chairman, The Cremation Society of Great Britain and Councillor Edward Latham, President, The Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities
14.25 hrs	CBCE 2017 Bursaries
14.30 hrs	CWGC – The Centenary. Community Engagement in the UK Jennie Sweeney, BA (Hons), Head of Community Engagement, Commonwealth War Graves Commission
15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
15.45 hrs	Investing in your future James Penney, MSc, Chairman, Darwin Alternative Investment Management Limited
16.30 hrs	Updated Guidelines for Groundwater Protection in Cemeteries Simon Holbrook, Local Authority Unit (LAU) Manager, The Environment Agency
17.00 – 18.00 hrs	End of Session – Drinks reception in Exhibition Area
19.30 hrs	Welcome BBQ and disco at the Stratford Manor Hotel

TUESDAY 4th JULY – Sessions sponsored by NAFD
09.30 hrs	The Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016 – Shaping the future of bereavement services in Scotland by Gareth Brown, Deputy Director, Health Protection and Public Health Reform, Scottish Government
10.15 hrs	Learning from the past: your energy future Martin Nicholson, BSc, Group Services Manager and Thomas Bates, Sales Manager, Northern Gas & Power Ltd
10.45 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
11.15 hrs	Sensitive handling of pregnancy loss Helene Marshall, BSc, RGN, SCM, Educational Project Manager Midwifery, NHS Education for Scotland
11.45 hrs	Grief Across Communities Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, FMedSci Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well
12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area
14.00 hrs	Making a positive impact through shared knowledge Alison Crake, MBA, FCMI, President, National Association of Funeral Directors
14.45 hrs	Catholics and Cremation 2017 Monsignor Kevin McGinnell, PhB, STB, PGCE, Joint Liturgical Group (GB)
15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
15.45 – 16.45 hrs	Presidents’ Panel Chaired by Harvey Thomas CBE Presidents:
19.15 hrs	Pre-dinner Drinks Reception sponsored by London Cremation Company
19.45 hrs	Event Banquet at Stratford Manor Hotel

WEDNESDAY 5th JULY – Sessions sponsored by Fraser and Fraser
09.30 hrs	Running out of space? The Legal and Practical Aspects of the Re-Use of Burial Sites Nicholas Evans, LLB (Hons), LLM, Partner and Roll A Parliamentary Agent and Mustafa Latif-Aramesh, LLB (Hons), Solicitor, Bircham Dyson Bell LLP; and Peter Mitchell, FICCM (Dip), Principal, Peter Mitchell Associates
10.15 hrs	Funeral Arrangements and Feuding Families: Who has the Legal Right to Decide? Dr Heather Conway, LLB, PhD, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queens University Belfast
11.00 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area
11.30 hrs	Systemic Radiation Treatment and Cremation Paul Hinton, MSc, CSci, CPhys, Consultant Clinical Scientist, British Nuclear Medicine Society/Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
12.15 hrs	Ministry of Justice update Judith Bernstein, MA (Oxon), LLM, Joint Head of Coroners, Burial, Cremation and Inquiries Policy Team, Ministry of Justice
13.00 hrs	End of Event Buffet Lunch in Exhibition Area

(All timings are approximate. Programme and speakers are subject to change.)