1. Public Protection Enforcement 2006/7 Toni Slater Service Manager Public Protection Service Housing and Public Protection Department

2. Public Protection Enforcement  Introduction  Priorities in 2006/7  Enforcement performance 2006/7  Barriers to effective enforcement and examples of successful prosecutions  Priorities for 2007/8 including Street scene  Service reconfiguration and efficiency savings to support predicted increase in demand from street scene

3. Priorities in 2006/7  Fixed Penalty Notices  Public Health and Environmental Enforcement – Reconfigure team to meet customer demands  Call centre pilot development  Counterfeiting – markets and car boot sales  Under Age sales  Street scene development and implementation  Relocation of Public Protection Service to Ruabon

4. Enforcement 2006/7 Licensing Public Health +EnvironmentalEnforcement Environmental Protection FoodSafety Prosecutions16000 EnforcementNotices01442717 Fixed Penalty Notices 047900 Formal Cautions 0000 Formal written and verbal warnings 2221542521

5. Enforcement Performance 2006/7 TradingStandards Fair Trading Trading Standards Commerce Animal Health Health and Safety Totals Prosecutions1612044 EnforcementNotices0358230 Fixed Penalty Notices 600485 Formal Cautions 6006 Formal written and verbal warnings 0800858

6. Barriers to effective enforcement  Some problem cases and failure to achieve a prosecution in magistrates court  Planning effective performance - following unsuccessful legal proceedings

7. Examples of Successful Prosecutions  Fly tipping  Taxi licensing  Animal Health  Counterfeiting

8. Priorities for 2007/8  Street Scene implementation  Reconfigure service to meet demands of street scene  Prosecution of non payment of Fixed Penalty Notices  Relocation of Public Protection Service to Ruabon  Identification of funding to meet service pressures 2008/9  More joined up working internally and externally: - JAG -Animal Health Enforcement -Flexible Warranting - HSE -Premises inspections -Smoking ban enforcement

9. Streetscene  Implementation of Phase 1  Review of phase 1 post launch in September 2007  Phase 2 development  Information to customers  Publicity

10. Environmental Enforcement April-June 2007  Fixed Penalty Notices Issued to date: Litter = 248 Dog Fouling = 38  1 successful Prosecution for Fly tipping  5 cases put forward for prosecution of non payers  Quarter 1 Performance targets met

11. Service reconfiguration and efficiency savings to meet future demands  Animal Health – virtual team  Noise – virtual team  Public Health and Environmental Enforcement Temporary re allocation of resources to offset street scene predicted increased demand from within PPS existing budget (Equivalent of £56,00 - staff costs) Shortfall of £130,00 for 2007/8 to maintain the 5 Environmental Enforcement Officer posts

12. Future enforcement strategies  Making the Connections and Beecham’s Beyond Boundaries All about building citizen centre, efficient, quality local services for Wales  Much more joint working across services and organisations – to enhance capacity, improve efficiency and increase the range of services  Hampton review – All about better regulation concentrating on outcomes. Rogers Review  Lifting the burdens task force

13. Doing More with Less  Reducing bureaucratic burdens  Add value and improve efficiency and flexibility  Develop workforce to meet new challenges  Anticipate change in terms of the future regulatory framework  Maintain service delivery in the face of diminishing resources