Enforcement

12 Dec 2017

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...

24 Nov 2017

Scotland – Minimum Unit pricing start date

A commencement Order has been laid before the Scottish Parliament to enable the implementation of the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing)  (Scotland) Act 2012 S1.  This will amend the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 and the premises licences grante...

21 Nov 2017

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...

13 Nov 2017

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...

08 Nov 2017

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...

16 Oct 2017

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...