{"id":10269,"date":"2026-02-25T07:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:31:48","slug":"scotland-funeral-industry-news-25th-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/scotland-funeral-industry-news-25th-february-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland &#8211; Funeral Industry News &#8211; 25th February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Update on amended burial and cremation forms<\/h2>\n<p>In our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/funeral-industry\/2026\/02\/04\/updates-to-burial-and-cremation-application-forms-and-registers\/\">blog post<\/a>\u00a0on 4 February 2026, we informed everyone about the new burial and cremation application forms that are coming into force on 2 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Our intention was to share the new forms in advance to allow burial and cremation authorities time to add their logo and address. We apologise that unfortunately we have experienced delays in production however we anticipate receipt of these tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>You should continue to use the existing burial and cremation application forms until we are in a position to circulate the updated versions. This includes applications you receive the week commencing 2 March 2026.\u00a0 The link for the current forms are below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/burial-statutory-forms\/\">Burial: statutory forms \u2013 gov.scot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/cremation-statutory-forms\/\">Cremation: statutory forms \u2013 gov.scot<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will share the PDFs as soon as we have the final versions.<\/p>\n<p>For further information or if you have any questions, please contact our team at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:burialandcremation@gov.scot\">burialandcremation@gov.scot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Update on amended burial and cremation forms In our\u00a0blog post\u00a0on 4 February 2026, we informed everyone about the new burial and cremation application forms that <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/scotland-funeral-industry-news-25th-february-2025\/\" title=\"Scotland &#8211; Funeral Industry News &#8211; 25th February 2025\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10270,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iccm-uk.com\/iccm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}