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Record Ref : FOI 8762
Date Received : 22/07/2021
Date Completed : 19/08/2021
Organisation : Private Individual
Application Type : Private Individual
Category : Public Health Funerals
Question
1. What enquiries are generally conducted by the local authority to identify a found unidentified body? 2. How and where is information relating to public health funerals recorded and stored? (Please comment on both digital and physical recording/storing) 3. Does the recorded information include the location of the bodies within cemeteries or crematoriums? 4. Are unidentified bodies usually buried or cremated? 5. Are cases of unidentified bodies reviewed? If so, what does this involve and when? 6. What records and systems are cross-matched with information relating to cases of unidentified bodies? 7. When is information relating to public health funerals deleted or destroyed? 8. How is information relating to public health funerals shared between individuals, departments, police forces, different agencies, and with the public? 9. Are there any differences in the above processes relating to unidentified body parts? If so, what are the differences? 10. Who has the overall responsibility for public health funerals within the local authority? 11. How can the management of information related to unidentified bodies be improved? 12. Is there a person within the local authority who would be willing to be contacted by the PhD researcher to answer further questions that will take approximately 30 minutes? If so, what are their contact details?
Answer
1. N/A - We have never dealt with an unidentified body 2. Information is stored on our information management system and public health funeral excel spreadsheet 3. No 4. Public Health funerals normally involve burial 5. N/A - We have never dealt with an unidentified body 6. N/A - We have never dealt with an unidentified body 7. They are not destroyed on the basis that relatives may come forward at any time. 8. Various: telephone, e mail, email/written response to Freedom of Information requests etc. 9. N/A - We have not dealt with body parts 10. Environmental Health 11. N/A - We have never dealt with an unidentified body 12. No