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Regulatory Services and the Rogers Review

July 17th, City of Manchester Stadium

In March 2007, the publication of the Rogers Review signalled a new era for Local Authority Regulatory Services.  Of sixty policy areas surrounding Environmental Health and Trading Standards considered in the report, five have been identified as national priorities to help authorities focus resources and the enforcement of regulation on areas of the greatest risk.  This clear set of priorities is designed to help local authority regulatory services to deliver high quality services to citizens, but how should these priorities be taken forward at national and local levels?  And how should local authorities still continue to provide other regulatory services that lie outside the Rogers priority areas? At this event, these issues will be discussed by an expert line up of speakers who will consider the recommendations of the Rogers Review and its impact on the future of Regulatory Services, while practical, case study presentations will focus on best practice projects which fall within the remit of the five priority areas.

Chair:
Suzanne Redding, Senior Policy Analyst, Regulatory Innovation Directorate, Better Regulation Executive, Cabinet Office
Suzanne was part of the Rogers Review secretariat with responsibility for engaging with local authorities through stakeholder events and is now responsible for ensuring outputs of the Rogers Review are passed on to local authorities.  She will discuss her role in the Review, will outline future plans for disseminating the findings directly to LAs and illustrate how she sees Regulatory Services being able to accommodate these.

This will be followed by:
Steve Harrison, Deputy Director Community Protection Department, Westminster City Council
Steve Harrison will give an insight as to Westminster City Council are taking the priorities forward in their local authority.


Driving Improvement in Council Regulatory Services
Derek Allen, Executive Director, LACORS (the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services)
- Outlining the challenges to CRS
- Identifying characterisrics of a poor, competent & excellent service 
- Over coming barriers and realising potential of regulatory excellence

Post Rogers- Dovetailing National and Local Priorities for Regulatory Services
Steve Miller, Head of Public Protection, London Borough of Newham 
- Rogers Review
- Effects on Local Authority, Professions and Local Politicians
- Effects on Service Plans
- Local Priorities
- Local Area Agreements
- The Good and Bad of National Priorities
- Themed Approach to Regulatory Services
- What we've learnt- a personal view
- The Rogers Review Future

Delivering the fair trading national priority - Scambusters and Regional Intelligence Units
Sarah Smith, Trading Standards Manager, Solihull MBC
An approach to using the National Intelligence Model in a local authority regulatory context; identifying Strategic Priorities and developing a Control Strategy; how regional intelligence units operate; tasking of specialist regional and local authority resources.  Sarah will use the Scambusters project as a case study.

Night time Economy: A Case Study of Broad Street - from Potential Alcohol
Disorder Zone to Business Improvement District Transferable Learning
Jacqui Kennedy, Director of Regulatory Service, Birmingham City Council 
In this presentation Jacqui will outline what the issues were, what were used to resolve some of the issues and where we are now.  It will cover before and after political, economic and social impacts, key partnerships, critical interventions etc.

An Intelligence Led Approach to National and Local Priorities
Graham Russell Head of Trading Standards for Staffordshire County Council
- How the National Intelligence Model provides a means to deliver the Hampton principles
- How we are using the model to focus our trading standards work in Staffordshire and the Central England Trading Standards partnership (CEnTSA)
- How we will build the Rogers led national priorities and local priorities into the strategic assessment
- How this links with Community Safety Partnerships (CDRP's) and Local Area Agreements
- How the National Intelligence Model could be used to refresh the Rogers priorities

Mobile working within Regulatory Services
Lisa O’Neill, Product Consultant, Kirona
This presentation will focus on the RCE funded and Nomad backed ReGS project.  Lisa will look at how an intelligent mobile ReGS application is being developed and used within Barnsley MBC and Sheffield CC to help transform the way in which they deliver their Environmental Health services. Kirona’s mobile technology forms part of the foundation for enabling both authorities to this. In addition to these two authorities Lisa will also discuss the products Kirona are contracted to deliver into Manchester City Council on Pest Control and building services into Wandsworth, Wokingham and Powys, street scene module at Bolsover.

Additional speakers tbc shortly

Speaker biogs:

Derek Allen
Derek became LACORS Executive Director in March 2002.  He was previously Head of Regulatory Services at Thurrock Council. He trained as an Environmental Health Officer at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham specialising in food safety and private sector housing.  Since 2002, LACORS has widened its portfolio to cover trading standards, food safety and standards, environmental protection, private sector housing, animal health and welfare, health and safety at work, civil registration, alcohol and public entertainment and gambling reform. LACORS has a crucial role in supporting and driving improvement in the delivery of council regulatory services and is working with and on behalf of the UK Local Government Allocations and key local government partnerships and 2007 will see the implementation of the Regulation for Excellence strategy.

Steven Harrison
Steve is an EHO by profession and worked at Harborough DC and Hackney BC before joining Westminster where he has managed the HMO team, noise service and commercial environmental health teams. His current role includes managing the councils Environmental Health, Trading Standards and Licensing services. He will discuss how his services are responding to the review and outline some of the opportunities it presents.

Jacqui Kennedy
Jacqui has spent her whole career working for Birmingham City Council.
Regulatory Services in Birmingham contributes to the local and national priorities, responding to the Health, Community Safety, Crime and Disorder and Anti Social Behaviour agendas, and Local Area Agreements.  Jacqui led the implementation of the Licensing Act in Birmingham, and was the Chair of the LACORS Licensing Policy Forum throughout these very interesting times, and now works closely with the Department of Culture Media and Sport as lead officer for Birmingham as a Scrutiny Council, she is also a member of a national government group working with the Home Office focusing on tackling the adverse effects of alcohol and managing entertainment areas. Jacqui is married to a Town Planner, and is an avid Aston Villa supporter, which she says gives her an interesting perspective on life!  She is on the West Midlands Crime Stoppers Board and is a school governor.

Lisa O’Neill
After completing an HND in Public Sector Studies in 1988 Lisa has spent the last 16 years working in or with local government.  Whilst working for Rossendale BC she qualified for IRRV (institute of revenues, rating and valuation) in 1995  In 1998 she joined First Software as a training consultant in revenues and attained her certificate in training practice CIPD in 2001.  She then moved into pre-sales as a revenues product consultant.  She joined Kirona in April 2006 as product consultant.

Steve Miller
Steve has been in Environmental Health for the last 32 years primarily in London Boroughs. He is Head of Public Protection at Newham. He has been active in all fields but particularly Health & Safety and latterly Emergency Planning & Public Health. He is a Trustee of the CIEH and a past Chair of Council and the Health & Safety Committee. He is currently the Chair of the Environmental Health Registration Board. Steve has been working very closely with the Rogers Review Team and welcomes the publishing of priorities. He is looking forward to the Olympics coming to Newham and is working on joining up Regulatory Services across the five Olympic Host Boroughs.

Sarah Smith
Sarah is originally from Fife on the East Coast of Scotland, educated at Manchester Metropolitan University she started her career enforcing consumer protection legislation at Fife Council in 1996. She is a Trading Standards professional who has worked in a variety of operational, policy and management roles in local government, with a regional trading standards partnership and with LACORS. Sarah currently manages the Trading Standards service at Solihull MBC and is also project managing the Scambuster pilot project on behalf of the Central England Trading Standards Authorities - tackling level 2 trading standards crime in the region. Her particular field of interest is developing strategies and creating partnerships to tackle rogue traders and deceptive trading practices. Sarah is the Vice Chair elect of the Trading Standards Institute, a TSI Council member and their Lead Officer on Scams.

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