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House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report published
At midnight last night, the House of Lords Committee report was published. It can be found here. Running to some 180 pages in all, the contents will take some digesting but here is the summary of the Report’s conclusions and recommend...
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House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report imminently due!
The report of House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 is due to be published next Tuesday – 4 April. To remind - this House of Lords Select Committee has been conducting post-legislative scrutiny of the Licensing Act, afte...
Gender pay gap reporting requirements - be aware
A bit off our usual area but as it will affect many operators within the leisure and licensed sector we are highlighting this new requirement. By 4 April 2018 all employers with 250 employees or more must publish a gender pay gap report on their ...
Alcohol licensing: a guide for public health teams issued
Public Health England has produced a guide to health teams to ‘make sure that licensing policy and applications consider the health and wellbeing of local communities’. The guidance is intended to inform on how directors of publi...
Immigration Act 2016 - and its implications for licensing - update and commencement
We refer to our previous news outlining proposed changes to the Licensing Act 2003 being introduced by the above Act (https://www.john-gaunt.co.uk/news/immigration-act-2016-and-its-implications-for-licensing) The amendments to the Licensing Act i...
'Ask for Angela' initiative gaining traction nationally
This scheme launched last year is apparently gaining traction across the country; believed to have started in Lincolnshire, it is now increasing being promoted elsewhere (Google – ‘ask for Angela’) and it has attracted much media...
Child Sex Exploitation (CSE) Avoidance – a brief
This is an area of increasing concern for society - but also for the leisure and hospitality industry in particular. We are seeing increased attention (including ‘test purchasing’) being given to operators by the authorities who expec...