Issue - meetings

Cllr Steve Evans presented, for approval, a draft Statutory Food Service plan for 2016/17. Production of the plan was a statutory requirement.  It provided a framework upon which a scrutinising body, such as the Food Standards Agency could conduct an official audit. It also set out, within an overall commitment to quality and continual improvement, the general aims and objectives of the service, the scope and levels of the service and the means by which it is delivered.

Resolved:

1.     That the draft 2016/17 Statutory Food Service be approved.

2.     That the Service Director for City Environment, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for City Environment, be authorised to approve the final version of the Statutory Food Service Plan for 2016/17.

3.     That the requirement to prepare a Food Service Plan be noted.

4.     That the impact on the ability to deliver the statutory requirements of the plan of the resource reductions arising from the restructure of the service in 2014 and the measures in place to mitigate the impact of further vacancies be noted.

5.     That the positive impact on food safety standards of the development of the food hygiene service following a systems thinking intervention, be noted.