Issue - meetings

Report of the Service Manager Parks and Street Care.

The Service Manager Parks and Street Care introduced a report, which had been circulated in advance of the meeting, seeking Cabinet approval to remove the charge for burials in Council owned cemeteries where the deceased is under 18 years old.

Councillor Paling asked if the charge could be reviewed in light of children with special educational needs being classified as children until the age of 19.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Approve the removal of charges made to residents of Gedling Borough for burials for those under 18 years of age with immediate effect; and

2)    Delegate to the relevant portfolio holder authority to include children with special educational needs aged up to 19 years old within the policy pending the outcome of investigations into the financial implications of the change

Councillor Clarke joined the meeting.