- Request
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1 - Does your authority carry out food standards?
2 - Does your authority carry out food hygiene work?
3 - If you carry out both, how many officers do standards only, how many officers do hygiene only and and how many do both?
The remaining questions relate ONLY to food standards.
4- Do you currently have a 'lead food officer' for food standards that is qualified and deemed competent?
5 - Is your lead food officer directly employed by your own authority or are they employed by another authority?
6 - How many competent 'authorised officers' do you have for food standards work? (excluding 'lead officer')
7 - How many competent 'regulatory support officers' do you have for food standards work? (excluding 'lead officer')
8 - Section - 3.4.2 of the Food Law Code of Practice lists a number of qualifications in order to be qualified/competent for food standards work. How many of your 'lead officer', 'authorised
officers' or 'regulatory support officers' for food standards have one of the qualifications listed below.
I am only interested in officers who are currently competent to do food work (i.e. do not include employees who have a qualification but are not competent to carry out food standards work):
* CTSI Trading Standards Practitioner Certificate with the Food Standards unit from the Trading Standards Practitioner Diploma
* Trading Standards Qualification Framework (TSQF) Diploma in Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards (DCATS) with the Food Standards Service Delivery Module
* Trading Standards Qualification Framework (TSQF) Higher Diploma in Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards (HDCATS) with the Food Standards Service Delivery Module
* Diploma in Trading Standards
* Diploma in Consumer Affairs (DCA Part II) provided it includes the Food and Agriculture paper
* Trading Standards Qualification Framework (TSQF) Certificate of Competence in Food Standards service delivery module
* Trading Standards Qualification Framework (TSQF) Core Skills Certificate in Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards (CSCATS) with the Food Standards Service Delivery Module
* Diploma in Consumer Affairs Certificate of Competence in Food and Agriculture
NB- if they do not have the above it is assumed they must have one of the alternatives - which are:
* Higher Certificate in Food Control awarded by EHRB or CIEH
* Higher Certificate in Official Control awarded by SFSORB
* Advanced Professional Certificate in Food Hygiene and Standards Control (APC)
awarded by CIEH
* A Certificate of Registration awarded by the EHRB to practice as an Environmental
Health Practitioner
* A Diploma in Environmental Health awarded by the EHRB or the REHIS
* Degree in Environmental Health
* Masters Degree in Environmental Health
* Higher Certificate in Food Premises Inspection awarded by the EHRB, IFST or the
SFSORB with the Food Standards Endorsement
* The Higher Certificate in Food Standards Inspection awarded by the SFSORB
* Environmental Health Practitioner (Integrated Degree) Apprenticeship
9 - How many officers (lead, authorised or regulatory support) do you employ that you have assessed as being competent under the FSA Competency Framework in ALL of the following activities:
Sub-activity B1.2: Assessing business compliance with food standards legislation
Sub-activity B2.2: Food standards audits
Sub-activity B5.1: Taking formal samples
Sub-activity C1.1: Preparing investigation files
Sub-activity D3.1: Preparing prosecution files
10 - How many of each of the following food premises do you currently have in your area
* High risk premises / category A
* Medium risk premises / category B
* Low risk premises / category C
11 - How many inspections have been carried out at high risk or category A premises for each of the following financial years. This refers to businesses that are expected/scored to be visited
every year.
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023 (to date)
12 - How many inspections have been carried out at medium risk or category B premises for each of the following financial years. This refers to businesses that are expected/scored to be visited
every 2 years.
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023 (to date)
13 How many inspections have been carried out at low risk or category C premises for each of the following financial years. This refers to businesses that are expected/scored to be visited or subjected to alternative enforcement strategy every 5 years.
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023 (to date)
14 - How many food samples have you obtained for each of the following years. 'Formal' or 'informal' (i.e. any food product taken/purchased for the purpose of analysis).
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023 (to date)
- Decision
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1. Yes
2. No – Environmental Health at the 7 district councils in Lincolnshire undertake this role in relation to Food Safety
3. N/a
4.Yes
5. Directly employed by Lincolnshire County Council – Trading Standards Department
6. 3, excluding the Lead Officer
7. None, this is not a position held by Trading Standards. Environmental Health hold these positions in Lincolnshire
8. See below with numbers • Trading Standards Qualification Framework (TSQF) Diploma in Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards (DCATS) with the Food Standards Service Delivery Module – 2 • Diploma in Consumer Affairs (DCA Part II) provided it includes the Food and Agriculture paper - 2
9. All 4 officers are assessed as competent for each activity 10. • High risk premises / category A 8 • Medium risk premises / category B 617 • Low risk premises / category C 10971
11. 2018-2019 2
2019-2020 1
2020-2021 2
2021-2022 1
2022-2023 (to date) 1
12. 2018-2019 13
2019-2020 8
2020-2021 8
2021-2022 14
2022-2023 (to date) 9
13. 2018-2019 107
2019-2020 88
2020-2021 76
2021-2022 87
2022-2023 (to date) 20
14. 2018-2019 68
2019-2020 106
2020-2021 108
2021-2022 183
2022-2023 (to date) 31
- Reference number
- FOI 4568889
- Date request received
- 01/08/22
- Date of decision
- 05/08/22