News Room
Welcome to CTSI's News Room. Here, you can browse through our latest consumer protection and trading standards news reports (below), or check out our archive of news articles from previous years.
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Birmingham trading standards expert wins CTSI Hero Award
Posted: 20/10/21
Senior Trading Standards Officer Tariq Mohammed has been awarded the CTSI Hero Award for Intellectual Property (IP).
Reforming the framework for better regulation - CTSI response
Posted: 04/10/21
The CTSI response to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) consultation.
Accountancy firm boss sentenced for advertising non-existent jobs
Posted: 04/10/21
The director of a London-based company that offered jobs via an online recruitment website has been given a suspended sentence for his part in a fraud that saw job applicants apply for positions that didn’t exist.
CTSI welcomes new PAC report which states UK regulatory system lacks capacity and skills to meet the challenges it faces
Posted: 01/10/21
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) welcomes a new report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that recognises the real dangers of unsafe products and the "serious challenges for regulators", skills and capacity.
CTSI and OPSS launch magnet safety campaign
Posted: 29/09/21
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), working with the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), is launching a safety campaign about magnets and magnet ingestion among children.