Programme

All papers and speakers subject to change.
Further details to follow.

Monday 5 July - Afternoon sessions sponsored by Westerleigh Group
09.30 hrs onwards	Arrival and registration
12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch
14.15 hrs	Opening of Conference
	The Move From Public to Private by Adrian Britton, BSc, F.C.A., Commercial Director, Westerleigh Group Ltd
	The Revision of the PG5/2(04) Guidance Notes by Andrew Mallalieu, BSc, MEI, C.Eng, Vice President Technical, Facultatieve Technologies
15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break
15.45 hrs	Resomation - The Debate Moderator: Mr Harvey Thomas CBE Panel including Sandy Sullivan, Managing Director, Resomation Ltd
17.00 hrs	End of Session - Drinks reception in Exhibition areas
Evening	Dinner
Tuesday 6 July - Sessions sponsored by The Co-operative Crematoria & Cemeteries
09.30 hrs	Cremation in Sweden - Country Report by Ulf Lagerström, a Trustee of the Swedish Federation of Cemeteries and Crematoria and President of the International Cremation Federation (1997 – 2005).
	Pandemic Planning - Update by Ahmed Azam, Pandemic Flu Coordination Team Leader, Home Office
10.30 hrs	Refreshment Break
11.00 hrs	Improving the Process of Death Certification in England and Wales by Simon Bennett, Head of Clinical Governance, Clinical Policy and Strategy, Department of Health
	The Cremation (England and Wales) Regulations 2008 by Judith Bernstein, MA, LLM, Head of Current Coroner Policy, Ministry of Justice
12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch
14.00 hrs	Local Authority Management of Closed Churchyards by John Rotherham, Bereavement Services Manager, Chesterfield Borough Council
	Requirements for Cemetery Developments by Dr Richard Earl, PhD, MSc, HND (Dist), CEng, FIAgrE, Managing Director, TurfTrax Ground Management Systems and Peter Mitchell, FICCM (Dip), Peter Mitchell Associates
15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break
15.45 hrs	Safety and Conservation of Monuments - the Legal Perspective by The Right Worshipful Timothy Briden MA LL.B, Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury; Chancellor of the Dioceses of Bath & Wells and Truro; Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Bristol; Chairman of the Ecclesiastical Judges Association
	Recent Changes to Standards and Qualifications in the Memorial Industry by David Quinn, Cert Ed, Development Officer, British Register of Accredited Memorial Masons
17.00 hrs	End of Session - Drinks reception in Exhibition areas
Evening	Dinner
Wednesday 7 July
09.30 hrs	A New Crematorium for Sandwell MBC by Brendan Day, Bereavement Services Manager, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, and Martin Critchell, Martin Critchell Architects
	The Cremation Movement in Japan By Dr Shoji Eguchi, President, Taiyo Chikuro Industries Co Ltd.
10.30 hrs	Refreshment Break
11.00 hrs	The Remarkable Rise of Cremation in a Scottish City: Glasgow 1930-1962 by Revd. Dr. Peter Jupp MA, MTh, MSc, PhD, FRSA, and Professor Hilary Grainger BA(Hons), PhD, FRSA, Research Fellows, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University
	Dying Matters – Raising awareness of dying, death and bereavement By John Palmer, Head of Communications, ‘Dying Matters’
12.30 hrs	Buffet Lunch
14.00 hrs	Funeral Pyres in a Legal Limbo? by Stephen White, MSc (Wales) Dip Crim (Cantab) 1965 (Criminology), BA (Oxon) 1964 (Jurisprudence), Member of the Council, The Cremation Society of Great Britain
	“Cremation in Israel - Sustainability in adversity leads to creativity” by Alon Nativ, Chief Executive Officer, Aley Shalechet (Autumn Leaves) Ltd
15.15 hrs	Refreshment Break
15.45 hrs	Presidents’ Panel A lively question and answer session involving Presidents from leading organisations within the death care profession. Moderator: Harvey Thomas CBE Isabel Mattick - Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities Philip Blatchly - National Association of Funeral Directors Kenneth Satterly - British Institute of Funeral Directors Douglas Swan - National Association of Memorial Masons
17.00 hrs	End of Conference
19.45 hrs	Conference Banquet

(Subject to change – all timings are provisional)