A blog about the work of Trading Standards in the UK
An important question when trying to justify your existence…. I am going to look at it from the perspective of why we are important to the Council. Councils are responsible for providing a wide variety of services which benefit their Continue reading Why are Trading Standards important?
In my last post I highlighted the areas of work Trading Standards are involved in but in this post I am going to discuss what the purpose of a Trading Standards department is. This is an important issue for two Continue reading What is the purpose of a Trading Standards Department?
Every Trading Standards department will be set up slightly differently depending on how the local authority (council) has decided to set it up – for example some are merged with Environmental Health or Planning departments. Below I have listed the Continue reading What do Trading Standards Do?
Some of the issues that Trading Standards deal with have been occurring for hundreds of years – for example short weights (buying something by the weight but not being given enough) or food adulteration (getting poorer quality food than what Continue reading A brief history of Trading Standards
I was inspired to start this blog after reading the blogs of other public sector workers providing an insight into their respective fields. I think there is widespread misunderstanding amongst the public about what Trading Standards actually do so hopefully Continue reading Welcome to my blog about the work of Trading Standards in the UK
I first started this blog back in 2013 and ran it from tradingstandardsblog.com. I stopped after a few years due to the cost of running it. However, I am now back and will try and put back as many of Continue reading My blog is back…