Decision Details

Implemented

East Suffolk Council Food and Health and Safety Service Plan 2024-2025

Yes

Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Community Health 

Tue 9 Jul 2024

The Council is required to produce a service plan for its food and health & safety regulatory functions, in a format prescribed by: 

• for food and imported food, the Food Standards Agency in its Framework Agreement on Official Feed and Food Controls by Local Authorities, and 
• for health & safety, the Health and Safety Executive, as set out in the National Local Authority Enforcement Code – Health & Safety at Work England, Scotland and Wales. 

East Suffolk Council operates Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority (SCPHA) and therefore official controls carried out by SCPHA are also included. 

Given close linkages to the Corporate Health & Safety Team, the work of this team is also included. 

This service plan combines the above in a single plan which must be submitted for member approval. It identifies the Council’s performance against the previous service plan (2023/2024), any variance from it and areas for improvement. 

Environmental Services & Port Health

Not applicable

Yes

Christine Walker

FSA Framework Agreement on Official Feed and Food Controls by Local Authorities.

HSE National Local Authority Enforcement Code – Health and Safety at Work

Equality Impact Analysis reference: EQIA622549625

Committee

Cabinet

No

No

Yes

No

The Council is required to produce and submit a Food and Health and Safety Service Plan for member approval.

N/A

The only option would be not to review Food and Health and Safety Service Plan for 2023/24. East Suffolk Council would not be operating in line with the Food Standards Agency’s Framework Agreement and the Health and Safety Executive’s National Local Authority Enforcement Code. This option has been rejected.

1. That performance against the Service Plan for 2023/24 be noted;
2. That Cabinet considered and commented on the Service Plan for 2024/25;
3. That Full Council be recommended to approve the Service Plan for 2024/25; and
4. That the  Head of Environmental Services and Port Health be authorised, in consultation with the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Community Health, to make any presentational or typographical amendments to the Service Plan prior to it being published.

None.

None.