International Cremation & Burial Conference & Exhibition 2015

Monday 6th, Tuesday 7th & Wednesday 8th July 2015 – Holiday Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon

Programme

Monday 6 July
09.30 hrs onwards	Arrival and registration

11.00 hrs	Exhibition opens

12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch & Exhibition

14.15 hrs	Opening of Conference, (Including opening words from Harvey Thomas CBE Chairman of the Cremation Society of Great Britain and Adrian Britton, Deputy President of the Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities.)

14.30 hrs	Scottish Death Certification and Scrutiny of Deaths by Dr George Fernie, LLB MB ChB MPhil FFFLM FRCGP FRCP (Edin) FRCP DFM, Senior Medical Reviewer, Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break in Exhibition Area

15.45 hrs	Islamic Gardens of Peace by Mohamed Omer, Board Member – External Affairs, Gardens of Peace Muslim Cemetery

16.30 hrs	Disposal of Pregnancy Remains Caroline Browne, Head of Regulation, Human Tissue Authority

17.00 hrs	End of Session - Drinks reception in Exhibition Area

Evening	Dinner at leisure
Tuesday 7 July
09.30 hrs	ICF Country Paper

09.45 hrs	Supporting bereaved children and their families Corinne Mason and Sally Napier, ACII, Winston’s Wish – The Charity for Bereaved Children

10.15 hrs	Wills & Inheritance: The Recent Changes to the Law of Intestacy Daniel Curran, Managing Director, Finders International Genealogists

10.45 hrs	Refreshment Break & Exhibition

11.15 hrs	Horizon 20/20: Cremation as Cultural Heritage Professor Douglas Davies, BA (Anthropology), BA (Theology), Ph.D., MLitt, DLitt, Hon Dr Theol, FLSW, FAcSS, Director of The Centre for Death and Life Studies, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University

11.45 hrs	Ministry of Justice update Judith Bernstein, MA (Oxon), LLM, Head of Coroners, Burials, Cremation and Inquiries Policy Team, Ministry of Justice

12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch & Exhibition

14.00 hrs	ICF Country Paper

14.15 hrs	Solving a Burial Space Problem in Five Days Mark Street, BSc (Hons), MCIEH, Environmental Services Group Manager, Stafford Borough Council

14.45 hrs	TEAM – Everyone Together Achieves More Mark Woollard, Immediate Past President, National Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors

15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break & Exhibition

15.45 – 17.00 hrs	ICF General Council Meeting

17.00 – 18.00 hrs	End of Session – Drinks reception in Exhibition Area
Wednesday 8 July
09.30 hrs	ICF Country Paper

09.45 hrs	Controlling The Risks Of Infection At Work From Human Remains - John Newbold, Principal Specialist Inspector, Biological Agents Unit, Health and Safety Executive

10.15 hrs	R.I.P. – the grave may not be the end Peter Mitchell, F.Inst.ICCM(Dip), Peter Mitchell Associates

10.45 hrs	Refreshment Break & Exhibition

11.15 hrs	Safe and Dignified Disposal of Mass Fatalities in Public Health Emergencies – A Public Health Perspective by Dr Aileen Kitching, MB BCh BAO, MPH, MFPH, MRCPI, MRCPG, DHA, DTM&H, DCh, EPIET Alumna, Specialist in Public Health Medicine/Medical Epidemiologist, Public Health England Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance & Control

12.00 hrs	Death before Birth Project: Disposal of Remains of Pregnancy in English Law Dr Sheelagh McGuinness, PhD, MA, LLB, BA, Birmingham Fellow, Centre for Health Law, Science & Policy, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham

12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch & Exhibition

14.00 hrs	ICF Country Paper

	Funeral Rites and Funeral Meanings – Reflections of a Travelling Bishop The Rt Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell, MA, PhD

	Not quite Dumas – fifteen years on by Dr Stephen Leadbeatter, MB, ChB, FRCPath, DMJ(Path), Director of the Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine, Cardiff University

15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break & Exhibition

15.45 hrs	International Question Time

16.45 hrs	End of Conference

19.45 hrs	Conference Banquet

(All timings are approximate and programme and speakers are subject to change)