Victims of Robert Bush call for funeral industry regulation

The text you’ve provided is from a BBC news story about a man named Bush who was jailed for 20 years for multiple crimes related to his role as a funeral director. Key points from the story include:

– Bush failed to properly bury or cremate bodies and gave ashes to bereaved families that were not those of their loved ones.
– Nearly 200 families were defrauded out of over £500,000.
– The funeral industry in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland is currently self-regulated, with no formal legal oversight, allowing anyone to set up as a funeral director without qualifications or mandatory inspections.
– Bush himself admitted awareness of the lack of regulation during police interviews.
– The National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) had no power to enforce penalties beyond removing members from their association.
– Police found scenes of significant neglect and chaos at Bush’s business premises in Hull.
– There is now a campaign led by victims to push the government to introduce statutory (legal) regulation of the funeral industry.
– Government officials, including the Department for Health and Social Care and the health secretary Yvette Cooper, have expressed support for formal regulation in response to the case.
– The sentencing judge questioned why official forms monitoring burials and cremations were not followed up appropriately by registrars and local authorities.

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