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The Council is required to produce a Food & Safety Service Plan by the Food Standards Agency.  The draft of the Plan is reported for the Board’s consideration and comment.

(Report of Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health)

The Council is required to produce a Food and Safety Service Plan by the Food Standards Agency.  The draft of the Plan was reported for the Street Scene and Environment Advisory Board’s consideration and comment. 

Following consideration by the Street Scene and Environment Services Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Change resolved that:

(1)         the Food and Safety Service Plan (2021-2024) be noted; and

(2)         the expenditure on a catch up inspection programme to restore the Food and Safety service to pre-pandemic levels in terms of the inspection programme, be agreed.

Decision Notice D210079MEM

The Council is required to produce a Food and Safety Service Plan by the Food Standards Agency.  Consideration was given to the draft Plan which had had been produced for a three-year period and reflected the timetable for the Food Standards Agency Covid-19 Recovery Plan.

Members noted that Local Authorities were expected to move at a faster pace in realigning interventions in line with the Food Law Code of Practice and the report proposed that £15,000 from the Contain Outbreak Management Fund be used to instigate a catch-up plan.

RECOMMENDED: That

(1)        the Food and Safety Service Plan (2021-2024) be noted; and

(2)        the expenditure on a catch up inspection programme to restore the Food and Safety service to pre-pandemic levels in terms of the inspection programme, be agreed.