Issue - meetings

Report number:     CAB/WS/24/017

Portfolio holder: Councillor Gerald Kelly

Lead officers: Jen Eves and Andrew Newman

Resolved:

That the Food Safety and Health and Safety Service Plan 2024 to 2025, as contained in Appendix A to Report number: CAB/WS/24/017, be approved.

(Report number CAB/WS/24/017)

The Cabinet considered this report which sought approval for the West Suffolk Food Safety and Health and Safety Service plan 2024 to 2025.

The Food Safety and Health and Safety Service plan outlined the Council’s commitment to protect public health and safety and the environment by conducting programmed and reactive interventions, investigations, and research to detect, eliminate and control hazards by applying fair, transparent, and proportionate enforcement.

The plan, which was a statutory requirement set out in the code of practice for food safety, was attached as Appendix A to the report, and was considered in detail by the Cabinet.

Councillor Gerald Kelly, Portfolio Holder for Governance and Regulatory, drew relevant issues to the attention of Cabinet, which included summarising progress made against the 2022 to 2023 plan; the key challenges identified that would affect the implementation of the 2024 to 2025 plan, and how resourcing of the team was a key factor to the successful implementation of the plan, as set out in sections 2.1, 3.1 and 5.1 of the report respectively.

The Cabinet supported approval of the plan and acknowledged the extensive amount of work undertaken by officers in this service area.

Resolved:

That the Food Safety and Health and Safety Service Plan 2024 to 2025, as contained in Appendix A to Report number: CAB/WS/24/017, be approved.