Basics of Burials
Course Description
This course focuses on the management and operation of cemeteries in compliance with the Local Authorities Cemeteries Order 1977 and associated legislation. This is a basic course aimed at clerks with limited or no experience of burials and cemeteries.
Course Outline
- Burial law
- Record keeping
- Exclusive right of burial
- Legal transfers
- Cemetery fees
- Cemetery rules
- Children's Funeral Fund for England
- Grave digging
- Memorials
- Closed churchyards
- Forward planning
- Dealing with the public
- Where to find more information
The course is tailored to the needs of Clerks, some of whom are part time employees, that rely on funeral directors and grave diggers not in the direct control of the authority. It does not include detailed testing of memorials.
Please note : the course is open to all county associations and will therefore have clerks and councillors not from Northamptonshire in attendance. We hope that this will allow for this course to be delivered more often and throughout the year.
When booking onto this course, the details that you provide will be used to book you onto a third party website where you will receive booking confirmation. Your details will only be used for the purposes of sending joining instructions.
Who Should Attend
Whilst this course is primarily aimed at clerks and council officers, councillors are also welcome to attend.
Cost (per delegate)
£46 +VAT Members
£92 +VAT Non Members
John Kilcoyne
John Kilcoyne is Deputy CEO of Leicestershire and Rutland Association of Local Councils since 2022. Prior to this he was training officer with Lincolnshire Association of Local Councils. He is CiLCA qualified and a recognised CiLCA trainer. He was a parish councillor between 2009 and 2022, including several years as council chair, and clerk to a council from 2018 to 2022. Previous experience includes over thirty years as a teacher, mostly in primary and special education.
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