Virtual Programme

WEDNESDAY 23rd JUNE 2021
08.30	Exhibition Opens
09.30 - 09.45	Opening of Event
SESSION ONE
09.45 – 10.15	Review of DEFRA Process Guidance on Crematoria Simon Holbrook, B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Manager - Local Authority Review, Environment Agency
10.15 – 10.45	The Environmental Stewardship Group and you Jon Cross FIoD, ESG Group Co-Ordinator, Environmental Stewardship Group
10.45 – 11.15	Ethical Commitments to Funerary Environments Professor Douglas Davies, Ph.D., D.Litt., Hon. Dr. Theol, FAcSS, FLSW, FBA, Director of The Centre for Death and Life Studies, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University
11.15 – 11.45	Break – Exhibition
SESSION TWO
11.45 – 12.15	An Update on the Medical Examiner System Dr Alan Fletcher B Med Sci (hons), MB ChB, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Lond), FRCEM, RCPathME, National Medical Examiner, NHSI
12.15 – 12.45	The Funeral Industry in Scotland Robert Swanson, Senior Inspector of Burial, Cremation and Funeral Directors, Scottish Government
12.45 – 13.15	Bereavement Services, we always do it that way…. Scott Storey, UK Operations, OpusXenta
13.15 – 14.00	Lunch – Exhibition
SESSION THREE
14.00 – 14.30	Modifications to Death Certification and Registration during the Pandemic Eric Powell, Head of Reform, General Register Office for England and Wales
14.30 – 15.00	The changing face of Cremations in the UK Andy Tait, Chief Executive Officer, GreenAcres Group, Karen Halpin, Park Manager, GreenAcres Rainford and Sharon Solomon, Senior Operations Manager, GreenAcres Group
15.00 – 15.30	Closing of event
15.45 – 16.15	Exhibition Closes