Enforcement
Scotland: 'Don’t Buy It, Don’t Supply It' to prevent alcohol supply to under 18s
Preventing Adults buying Alcohol for under 18's is the focus of a new campaign in Scotland. The initiative is to make Adults aware that they are committing an offence, if they are buying alcohol for an underage person. The Air Weapons and Licens...
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Sheffield City Council Consultation on CIP to end on 13th December 2017
A consultation survey, opened to gain views on options for The Devonshire Green/West Street area of Sheffield is to close on the 13th December 2017. The survey by Sheffield City Council is part of “ongoing plans to improve the ar...
Metropolitan Police - Form 696
Following a special meeting of the London Music Board in September co-hosted by Amy Lamé, the Mayor’s Night Czar, the Metropolitan Police (Met) carried out a full review and consultation of the ‘Form 696’ risk assessment p...
Detail on the Government response to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003
On 4 April 2017, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 published its post-legislative scrutiny report some 11 years after the Act came into force. A summary of the Committee’s conclusions and recommendations (over 70...
CSE - 'test purchasing'
We have previously flagged difficulties for the hospitality sector in terms of Child Sex Exploitation (CSE) and particularly so for the hotel sector. To remind, increasingly there is the expectation that staff will have ben trained to be alert to...
Pubs shut after antisocial group comes to town
You may have read weekend reports in the national press regarding incidents in Cromer, North Norfolk. An antisocial group had come to the seaside town for the weekend and by Saturday Night all the pubs in the area decided to go into l...
Banning the sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT: Guidance update
This Guidance (which has recently been updated) is aimed at alcohol suppliers and enforcement authorities. It provides information about the ban on the sale of below-cost alcohol, including: what the ban means and who it applies to how to imple...