Funeral Poverty and Funeral Support Payment Reference Group
Overview
The Funeral Poverty and Funeral Support Payment Reference Group was set up to support Scottish Ministers in developing policy for a new funeral payment. Funeral Support Payment has now launched.
The group advises on:
- the evidence base to support policy decisions
- the evaluation of policy
- the perspective of users
- the wider landscape of funeral and bereavement issues in Scotland
- interaction with wider Scottish and UK social security benefits
The group first met in March 2016.
Members
- Bryan Kerr, Church of Scotland
- Elaine Thornton-Nicol, Scottish Older People’s Assembly
- Eileen Cawley, Scottish Pensioners Forum
- Ellie Wagstaff, Marie Curie
- Ewan Gurr, Funeral Link
- Fiona Arnott-Barron, Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland
- Gerry Boyle, Dignity
- Jane Matheson, Scottish Working Group on Funeral Poverty
- Joanne Wakeley, Age Scotland
- John Cunningham, COSLA
- John Halliday, Caledonia Funeral Aid
- Joseph Murren, Society Of Allied And Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF)
- Lindesay Mace, Quaker Social Action, Down to Earth
- Mark Willis, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
- Mathew Crawley, Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM)
- Natalie McQuade, Association of British Credit Unions Ltd (ABCUL)
- Nick Britten, National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD)