BCP COUNCIL has failed to provide the standard of bereavement care and services that people deserve.

Income generated from cremations has not been invested in replacing cremators.

As a result there has and will be increasing carbon emissions, a loss of income and a reduction in the quality of bereavement care across the conurbation.

The monies spent on refurbishing what is now called the Halo Centre should have been invested in putting in a new cremator, resulting in new income which could then have been invested in painting and decorating.

Failure to care well for people through outstanding bereavement care places a further burden on health care services, workplaces, emotional and mental health.

This is not about staff energy and effort in seeking to care for the dead or the bereaved, it is about a failure at todays date of leadership.

The current recommendations in the BCP bereavement report fails people, negatively impacts the environment, increases the council deficit and puts local authority bereavement services seriously at risk by not providing a conurbation wide service.

JONATHAN MARTIN

Gladstone Road, Poole