Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Development and Safety

RESOLVED THAT

The food safety service plan for 2018-19 be approved.

The Cabinet Member Development and Safety introduced the report and explained that the council was required to produce a Food Safety Service Plan under the Framework Agreement with the Food Standards Agency. Local Authorities were required to consider and approve the Plan to help ensure local transparency and accountability.

The Food Safety Service Plan was the Council’s expression of commitment to the delivery of an improving cost effective and efficient regulatory food service. It was an annual operational plan, giving details of how Cheltenham was going to execute its statutory food safety functions within the Public Protection service.

The Cabinet Member reported that it had been a successful year and there was sufficient resource in place to deliver the plan. He then highlighted the following :

·         As at 31 March 97% of rated food businesses in Cheltenham were broadly compliant

·         847/876 food businesses in the town were rated 3 or higher for food which represented a 7 % increase on last year

·         The overall intervention rate of 92.7 % interventions against the authority’s self-set target of 100% was a significant achievement

This therefore reflected a successful year in terms of oversight and complied with all the necessary standards.

RESOLVED THAT

The food safety service plan for 2018-19 be approved.