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Professional Training
CTSI Professional Training courses sit alongside our Qualifications and are designed to keep local authority practitioners up-to-date with legislation changes and equip them with the knowledge and skills to work effectively with business and build consumer confidence in today's challenging and evolving market place.
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Consumer Vulnerability Webinar for Business
Businesses have a responsibility to treat all consumers decently and fairly, they also have a responsibility to ensure all customers get the best outcomes in the decisions they are making. It is particularly important that they are aware of their responsibilities in identifying and supporting consumer vulnerability.
Effective Advice and Education Campaigns
'What makes an effective education campaign?' - CTSI Lead Officer Louise Baxter will draw from her vast experience of creating effective and successful education campaigns that raise awareness, deliver the detail and inspire a call to action.
UK Weighing Federation Training Day
Theory and Practical Training in Weights and Measures Inspection.
Legal Metrology and Product Safety Training Programme
Free legal metrology and product safety training programme for local authority practitioners.
CTSI Animal Health and Welfare Professional Qualification
CTSI’s Animal Health and Welfare experts have developed a professional qualification that is accepted under the new legislation and is suitable for those working in the Animal Health and Welfare area.
AHW Investigations and Relative Considerations
An overview of the types of offending frequently witnessed in Animal health and welfare, including non-compliance with disease control legislation, animal welfare, animal by products and livestock Identification. Consideration to the powers, enforcement strategies and matters for consideration to assist in proving the offences identified.
Animal (Penalty Notices) Act 2006
An overview of the Animals (Penalty Notices) Act 2022 and the scope for use by local authorities.
Intellectual Property Office - Local Authority Training Programme 2023-24
CTSI is pleased to announce that it will be working in partnership with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to deliver a programme of Intellectual Property (IP) training to all local authority practitioners throughout the UK for 2023/2024.
Disposable Vape Tank Testing Workshop
This workshop is a designed to show a quick, safe and accurate method to determine whether a disposable vape pen is compliant.
Notifiable Disease - The LA Practical Guide to Avian Influenza
This course is for local authority officers who may be involved in the outbreak of an incident involving avian influenza and the practical considerations for swift action in responses to the disease.
Enforcement of the Bovine Tuberculosis Rules
This 2 hour online course will provide an overview of the TB legislation and policies relevant to BTB controls including the roles of both local authority and APHA in enforcement and the use of intelligence in enforcement, the identification of non-compliance and the powers available for enforcement.
Animal Welfare & Taking Animals into Posession
An overview of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 including Section 4 (unnecessary suffering) and Section 9 (Duty of Care)
Enforcement Powers in Animal Health and Welfare
An overview of the powers of Animal Health Act 1981 as amended by the Animal Health Act 2002 alongside relevant secondary legislation made under the Act and EU Regulations implemented into UK statute as a result the Act.
Illegal Slaughter & WATOK
An overview of the types of offending and the relevant legislative provisions including amongst others, the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the Animal By-Product Regulations.
Regulatory Leadership Programme
Professional development is an intrinsic factor for organisations in operating smarter and more efficiently. By helping employees master the skills they need to progress, you can shape the development of your future leaders.
Business Certificate of Competence in Product Safety (BCCPS)
Do you work in the consumer product industry? Are you responsible for designing, manufacturing, distributing, or part of the supply chain for consumer products? Then this course is for you
CTSI Qualification Framework - QF
CTSI's Professional Qualification Framework offers the full range of training and development, from entry level right up to the coveted and respected charted trading standards practitioner status (CTSP).
Aspiring Leaders Programme
Designed specifically for those working in a local authority setting, this online programme will focus on self-development, improving skills and equipping aspiring leaders with the tools and confidence to lead their teams and help them learn how to influence and inspire others.
EU Exit e-learning portal
The EU Exit portal is a key resource in keeping trading standards professionals up to date with of all the significant developments affecting UK consumer law.
