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COVID-19: 12 Week Consultation on Covid Recovery
August 17, 2021 by funeral-industry-news No Comments | Category Consultation
The Scottish Government has launched a 12 week public consultation “Covid recovery: a consultation on public health, public services and justice system reforms” which runs until 9 November 2021. The funeral sector have a particular interest in the provisions regarding remote registration of deaths and still-births and we would encourage you to respond to the consultation using the citizenspace consultation platform. We are very grateful for your input and engagement in this consultation.
For further details about the consultation, please see the news release, consultation paper and Coronavirus legislation website.
We would welcome you sharing the consultation further via social media, links to the social media launch of the consultation can be found on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Should you have any questions, please email burialandcremation@gov.scot in the first instance and we can direct you to the colleagues leading on the consultation.
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