Basics of burials
Course Tutor
John Kilcoyne, LRALC Deputy DEO
NEW for 2025
Overview
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.
Cost: £40 per delegate (member rate), £115 per delegate (non member rate)
Dates:
Wednesday 29th January 2025 10am-12pm
Tuesday 24th June 2025 1-3pm
Tuesday 14th October 2025 10am -12pm
Format: Online