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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE 4TH DECEMBER 2020
FSS food business and food retail self-assessment tools
Food Standards Scotland have been working on food business and food retail self-assessment tools under the Scottish Governments COVID-19 Strategic Framework and their COVID-19 Safety and Compliance Programme. These are now published.
The intention behind the tools is that they provide a practical toolkit for food businesses and food retail establishments in maintaining internal audit records to demonstrate ongoing compliance with COVID-19 protective measures. Feedback from Incident Management Teams had been identified as a weakness so use of these will allow businesses to demonstrate that they are following the measures required and can help in providing assurance to regulators and potentially assist in IMT discussions in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak.
The link below takes you to FSS main guidance page and the tools are listed in the area below alongside the others materials available.
The self-assessment for retail questionnaire is particularly helpful to allow our members to measure how well their protocols meet the requirements of the Incident Management Teams.
Modern Apprentice Employer Incentive
Whether it's hiring someone new or developing an existing employee, apprenticeships can help provide the skills your business needs.
A new Apprenticeship Employer Grant has been made available to further support employers when taking on Modern or Graduate Apprentices within their business.
• £5,000 will be made available for employers taking on a 16 to 24-year old apprentice, and for those aged up to 29 years who are either disabled, care leavers or Black and Minority Ethnic (BME)
• £3,500 will be made available for employers taking on an apprentice aged 25 or over
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Funding will be available for eligible employers where the apprenticeship start date was on or after 1st December 2020. Funding will be available for starts until 25th March 2021 or until funding levels are exceeded, whichever comes first.
More information and application details on the Apprenticeship Employer Grant will be made available from early January 2021.
Contact Claire on 01738 637785 or [email protected] to register your interest.
Retail sales trends in covid tier levels
We have been asked by our colleagues at the Scottish Meat Wholesalers Association to provide feedback on sales and ordering of products in the different tiers in Scotland.
In the lead up to Christmas it would be beneficial to identify if sales/orders of particular products ( beef, pork, lamb and poultry) have increased or decreased depending on which tier the area of the country is in.
If you can give us a little information on the trends you are experiencing, or have noticed a significant change you think we should know about, please e-mail [email protected] using the details below and we will feed back to the other stakeholders at our weekly meetings which are on a Monday.
The Scottish Craft Butchers office in Perth is now closed following government guidelines.
We will be available to our members to answer any queries via email or by mobile phone and will be available out of office hours for any members wanting to contact us.
Our contact details are below
Gordon King: – [email protected] 07917524313
Bruce McCall: – [email protected] 07834490922