Doncaster Council

Press Release

South Yorkshire Trading Standards made up of the four Authorities of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield have won a prestigious individual award for their joint partnership.

At the Trading Standards Institute National Conference in Brighton, South Yorkshire Trading Standards participated with an exhibition theme of “Improving Standards through Partnership”.  Since the Conference was in Brighton the exhibition stand was given a ‘seaside flavour’ with a variety of seaside attractions.  These included a comic postcard and a seaside win a prize ‘grabber’ machine, as well as the staff wearing seaside attire.  Almost £160 from the grabber was donated to the College of Fellows, a charitable organisation designed to give assistance to individuals who find themselves in difficult circumstances.

The Minister for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs, Gerry Sutcliffe MP attended the Conference and visited the South Yorkshire stand.

Such was the high standard of South Yorkshire’s exhibition, demonstrating the effectiveness of joint partnership working, that they were awarded the prize for the best Local Government stand at the Conference.

The initiatives exhibited on the stand included:

• South Yorkshire Motor Trade Partnership Scheme
• South Yorkshire Door Step Crime Initiative
• South Yorkshire Trading Standards Unit
• South Yorkshire Reciprocal Agreement
• International Metrology Conference
• South Yorkshire Trading Standards Newsletter    

Councillor Chris Rosling-Josephs, Chair of the South Yorkshire Joint Trading Committee stated:

“The hard work and commitment of all Trading Standards staff is commendable and the Trading Standards Service in South Yorkshire is delighted to have won this national award.”