Annual TSI/ACTSO House of Commons Seminar

 29 September 2009

This annual event is jointly organised with the Association of Chief Trading Standards Officers (ACTSO), a Section of TSI.

The title of this year's seminar was 'Getting the Balance Right: Are good regulators key to economic success?'

Copies of the presentations made at the event can be found below.

Speaker profiles. 

Session One:  'What do Businesses want from Regulatory Services?'
We think we know, but do we? Can we improve what we do to help businesses flourish and survive the recession? This session will give us an insight to the business view.

Paul Dobson, Premier Foods, Lincolnshire (Presentation PDF 301KB)
Paul Raynes, Programme Director, LGA
Emma McCarthy, Chief Operating Officer, NICEIC Group Limited (Presentation PDF 233KB)
Derek Allen, LACORS

1330 - 1500 Session Two:  'Consequences of our Actions - are we having the impact we envisaged?'
All actions have consequences, are our actions delivering the outcomes we
intended?

Philip Dixon, British Institute of Innkeeping - 'Where should 16 year olds drink?' (Presentation PDF 523KB)
Janet Faulkner, Warwickshire County Council, - 'Where do under 18s get their tobacco?' (Presentation PDF 85KB)
Andy Griffiths, Sussex Police - 'Getting enforcement policy right to achieve the desired outcomes'
Sue Nelson, Corporate Culture - 'How do we change young people's
attitudes to things?' (Presentation PDF 1.3MB)

Session Three:  'Learning Lessons from our Peers to help us through the recession'
Let's share best practice from around the nation, and not be too proud to replicate imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

Peter Astley, Warrington Borough Council - 'Shared Services, making it work' (Presentation PDF 93KB)
David Sanders, Vale of Glamorgan Council - Glamorgan Group 'Trustmark' Scheme
Leon Livermore, Cambridgeshire County Council - 'Beacon Award for cutting red tape'

Session Four John Barradell, New Chief Executive, Brighton and Hove City Council - 'Challenges for Chief Executives and the Role for Regulatory Services' (Presentation PDF 362KB)

After dinner speaker - Lembit Opik MP, 'Regulations stopped me riding my Segway and other tales of the unintended'.

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