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  • Easy read: Tell Us Once

    Tell Us Once helps you let most government departments and local councils know when someone dies. This guide tells you how to use it.

    • From: Department for Work and Pensions
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  • Make a claim to a deceased person's estate

    Find out if you are an entitled relative and how to claim an estate from the Bona Vacantia division.

    • From: Bona Vacantia
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  • What to do after a British national dies abroad

    Advice on actions you may need to take and the support available from the FCDO and others when a British person dies abroad.

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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  • Store a will with HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS)

    A guide for people who want to store their will or codicil (an update to the will) with HM Courts and Tribunals Service.

    • From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service
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  • Register an estate as a personal representative

    Use the online service to register a deceased person's estate if you’re an executor, administrator or personal representative.

    • From: HM Revenue & Customs
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  • What to do after a British person dies in Spain

    This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Spain, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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  • What to do after a British person dies in Thailand

    This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Thailand, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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  • Guidance on making wills using video-conferencing

    The Government is introducing legislation to allow people to use video-conferencing technology for the witnessing of wills being made.

    • From: Ministry of Justice
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  • Refer a deceased person's estate to the Treasury Solicitor

    Notify the Bona Vacantia division that a person has died without leaving a will or any known blood relatives.

    • From: Bona Vacantia and 1 others
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  • What to do after a British person dies in France

    This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in France, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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  • Child death review: statutory and operational guidance (England)

    Statutory and operational guidance for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities as child death review partners.

    • From: Department for Education and 1 others
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  • Changes to the death certification process

    How the death certification process in England and Wales will change from April 2024, including the introduction of medical examiners.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Notification of Deaths Regulations 2019 guidance

    This is guidance to medical practitioners on notifying deaths to the coroner.

    • From: Ministry of Justice
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  • Manage your estate's details

    Use the online service to update details of an estate, authorise an agent, or close an estate.

    • From: HM Revenue & Customs
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  • International funeral directors in the UK

    List of UK-based funeral directors for British nationals if a family member or friend has died abroad.

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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  • When someone dies in Turkey

    The process when a British national dies in Turkey, including registering the death, funerals and bringing the person’s body to the UK.

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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  • When someone dies in South Africa

    Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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  • What to do after a British person dies in Barbados

    Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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  • When someone dies in Germany

    The process when a British national dies in Germany, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person’s body to the UK.

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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  • Death abroad: UK organisations that can help

    Many UK-based organisations can offer assistance, support and information to those affected by a death abroad.

    • From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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