Request 101004048171

Please provide recorded information concerning any local authority campaign, project, initiative or targeted inspection activity relating to businesses providing non-surgical cosmetic or aesthetic treatments.

For the period 1 January 2018 to the date of this request, please provide the following.

Please identify any campaign, project, targeted inspection programme, intelligence-led operation, sector compliance exercise or other organised initiative undertaken by the authority concerning businesses providing non-surgical cosmetic or aesthetic treatments.

For each such activity, please provide:

a. the title or description of the project;

b. the date it commenced and, where applicable, ended;

c. the council department or service responsible;

d. the project brief, initiation document, terms of reference or equivalent recorded document;

e. the recorded reason, evidence, intelligence or risk assessment used to select the cosmetic or aesthetic treatment sector for attention;

f. the recorded criteria or methodology used to identify businesses for inspection, contact or investigation;

g. any inspection checklist, officer briefing, guidance, procedure or instruction used for the project;

h. the legislation officers were instructed to consider or enforce;

i. the number of businesses contacted or inspected;

j. the number receiving advice, warnings, notices, referrals, cautions, prosecutions or other enforcement action; and

k. any final report, evaluation, summary or findings produced.

In relation to the selection of businesses, please identify whether any of the following were used as a source:

a. complaints;

b. council licensing or registration records;

c. social media;

d. business websites or advertising;

e. intelligence databases;

f. referrals or information from another local authority;

g. information supplied by a professional association, voluntary register, trade body, insurer, pharmacy, manufacturer, training provider or other external organisation; or

h. any other recorded source.