Decision

Salford City Council - Record of Decision

I, Councillor Barbara Bentham, Lead Member for Neighbourhoods, Environment and Community Safety, in exercise of the powers contained within the City Council Constitution do hereby approve:

1. Food Safety and Feed Plans for 2024/25, incorporating a review of performance during the period 2023/2024,
2. The Health and Safety Plan for 2024/25

The Reasons are, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) requires each local authority to produce a Food and Feed Service Plan in accordance with the guidelines set out in the Agency’s Framework Agreement on Local Authority Food Law Enforcement (April 2010).

The Health and Safety Executive has introduced a National Local Authority Enforcement Code with the aim of ensuring that local authority health and safety enforcement are focused on serious risks and poor performers. To ensure the service is accountable to our community, local authority health and safety services and processes should be designed to meet the local needs of the public and businesses. This should be reflected in publicly available risk based service plans, approved, on an annual basis, by elected members, which reflects the HSE’s strategic priorities and the objectives of the National Code

Options considered and rejected: None - there is a statutory duty to produce annual Food and Feed Service and Health and Safety plans.

Assessment of Risk: low

The source of funding is: The requirements of the FSA and HSE can be met within existing budgets.

Legal Advice obtained: Yes

Salford City Council has a statutory duty to produce annual Food and Feed Service and Health and Safety Plans. The FSA has the legal power to take over the management of the food service from local authorities who fail to achieve satisfactory levels of performance in terms of the enforcement of food standards and food hygiene legislation.

Financial Advice obtained: Yes

Procurement Advice obtained: n/a

HR Advice obtained: Yes

Climate Change Advice obtained: n/a

The following documents have been used to assist the decision process:

Reports submitted to Neighbourhoods, Environment and Community Safety Lead Member Briefing held on 10 June 2024

Contact Officer:  John Snow, Service Manager, Regulatory Strategy                       

Telephone number: 0161 925 1315

-       This decision is not subject to consideration by another Lead Member.

-       The appropriate scrutiny to call-in the decision is the Community and Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Panel                     

Signed: Councillor Barabara Bentham   

Lead Member for Neighbourhoods, Environment and Community Safety

Dated: 10th June 2024

This decision was published on Monday, 10th June 2024                                           

This decision will come in force at 4.00 p.m. on Monday, 17th June 20 unless it is called-in in accordance with the Decision-Making Process Rules.