Purpose

To approve the annual Food and Feed Service
Plan 2025/26 for the Rotherham area.

Decision

 

ROTHERHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

RECORD OF OFFICER EXECUTIVE DECISION

 

Date of Decision:

30th July 2025

Title:

Rotherham Borough Food and Feed Plan
2025/26

Decision Maker:

(Including Job Title)

Sam Barstow Assistant Director Community Safety and
Street Scene

 

Details
of Specific Delegation
 
or
 
Delegation contained in the relevant Sub-Scheme of
Delegation.

 

Contained within delegations described in the
Council’s Constitution, Sub-Scheme of Delegation –
Strategic Director regeneration and Environment.

 

At Section 4C of Appendix 9: Responsibility for
Functions, of the Constitution
(Appendix 9 - Responsibility for
Functions.pdf (rotherham.gov.uk), of the Constitution it
states:

 

1 This officer delegation scheme sets out the
executive functions delegated to officers by the Leader under
his/her Executive Arrangements (The executive functions delegated
by the Leader should be construed in a broad and inclusive fashion
to include the doing of anything which is calculated to facilitate
or is conducive or incidental to the discharge of those functions.
They should not however be understood to include any Council
function).

 

8. Delegations set out in this scheme will be read
in conjunction with all provisions of the Council’s
Constitution, and decisions taken by officers in accordance with
this scheme will be taken in accordance with all relevant rules and
protocols.

 

Appendix 9 continues, at Section 4C6,
stating:

 

The Strategic Director of Regeneration and
Environment is authorised to discharge executive functions
for:-

1. Community Safety and Street Scene

(a) Community Safety, Resilience and Emergency
Planning

(b) Highways and Network Management

(c) Regulation and Enforcement

(d) Waste and Street Scene

 

 

The Constitution continues at Item 16 Sub Scheme of
Delegation Strategic Director of Regeneration of Environment
(Sub
Scheme of Delegation - Strategic Director of Regeneration and
Environment.pdf (rotherham.gov.uk) at p 1, to
state:

 

The Strategic Director has chosen to sub-delegate
some or all of those functions to officers of suitable experience
and seniority in his/her own directorate or in another
directorate.

 

At pp 3 – 8 the delegations to the Assistant
Director Community Safety and Street Scene are defined further and
include:

 

Any function not otherwise reserved to the full
Council, the Cabinet, a committee of the Cabinet, a member of the
Cabinet, a joint committee discharging executive functions or
another local authority, relevant to the Assistant Director’s
portfolio

 

Specific delegations are laid out in the
Council’s Constitution at Item 16 Sub-Scheme of Delegation
Strategic Director of regeneration and Environment (Sub Scheme of
Delegation - Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment.pdf
(rotherham.gov.uk)) pp51 – 61 in respect of the Food Safety
Act 1990 and related statutory instruments, amongst others, in that
the delegation of powers in relation to the issuance of statutory
documents is:

 

Via written Authorisation to approve on behalf of
Assistant Director of Community Safety and Street Scene and the
Assistant Director – Planning, Regeneration and Transport, to
the Head of Community Safety and Regulatory Services and Service
Manager, Community Safety and Regulatory Services Head of Transport
Infrastructure, Head of Highways.

 

Decision:

The decision is to note the Food and Feed Service
Plan and Food and Feed Sampling Policy for 2025/26.

Reasons for the Decision:

The
Council is obliged by statute to have a Food and Feed Service Plan
and Food and Feed Sampling Policy and therefore no alternatives
have been considered.  It is not a key
decision as the expenditure is within the existing
budget. 
 
The
Codes of Practice requires the plan covers all the areas of food
and feed law which the Competent Authority has a duty to enforce,
be documented in accordance the Practice Guidance and the Framework
Agreement. The plan sets out how the Competent Authority intends to
deliver and resource official food and feed controls and other
official activities in its area and addresses any variance in
meeting the outcomes of the previous Food and Feed Service
Plan.
 
It also
includes a performance review of the previous year.
 
The
plan must be submitted for approval by a relevant
member
forum or relevant senior officer.
 
Consequently, the Council has in place specific delegations
within its Constitution
 

Details of alternative options considered and
rejected:

This is a legal requirement without provision of
alternative options. 

Conflicts of interest declared by any Cabinet Member
consulted by the decision maker which relates to the
decision:

None

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

None

 

Conflicts of interest declared by the Decision Maker if they sit
as a Cabinet appointed representative to an outside body which
relates to the decision:

None

 

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

None

 

Reports or parts of reports considered

Appendix 1    Food and Feed
Service Plan 2025/26
Appendix 2   Food and Feed
Sampling Policy 2025/26
Appendix 3   Equalities
Screening Assessment
Appendix 4   Carbon and Climate
Change Assessment

 

 
I certify that this is a true
record of the executive decision to: note the Food and
Feed Service Plan and Food and Feed Sampling
Policy for 2025/26
 
 
I confirm that in
making this decision, due regard was given to the seven principles
of public life.
 
Signed by the
Decision Maker:
 

Dated:         
30th July, 2025
 
Name:         
Sam Barstow                    
Job Title:     Assistant Director
Community Safety and Street Scene