interviews with Humberside Police<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn footage released by the force, an officer asks: “Has it ever happened in your experience that someone from Bereavement Services, for example, has turned up to ask to inspect your fridges to make sure they are in order?”<\/p>\n
Bush replies: “No, nobody.”<\/p>\n
The officer asks: “Is [inspection] a thing that happens?”<\/p>\n
“When you join the National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) you have an inspection,” Bush responds.<\/p>\n
“They came round for spot inspections, but if you didn’t come up to scratch there wasn’t a penalty, you just weren’t in their association any more.”<\/p>\n
Bush shrugs.<\/p>\n
“They’re also checking whether you’ve got cushions on your sofa or how many leaflets you have.”<\/p>\n
He later adds: “I know we’re a highly unregulated industry.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funeral industry in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is self-regulating, relying on voluntary codes and inspections by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722079","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=722079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}