Dry urged the government for action in regulating the funeral industry, which operates without any specific regulatory regime for funeral directors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
“We believe MP Emma Hardy should be requesting a public inquiry, as it is essential to establish accountability and implement the safeguards required to prevent any future reoccurrence,” Dry said.<\/p>\n
Hardy, the Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice, said she welcomed the guilty pleas.<\/p>\n
“Robert Bush abused his position of trust to take advantage of people at their most vulnerable,” she said.<\/p>\n
The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF) condemned Bush’s actions and said it would “ensure this can never happen again and restore public confidence”. <\/p>\n
“We will do this by working collaboratively with the government and stakeholders across the funeral sector,” a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n
“Together we will introduce a robust yet proportionate form of regulation that requires all practitioners providing care to the bereaved and the deceased to meet a rigorous set of standards.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dry urged the government for action in regulating the funeral industry, which operates without any specific regulatory regime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-509084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}