Annual Report 2012/2013

The Animal Health and Welfare Board for England published its first Annual Report on 19 April 2013.

• AHWBE Annual Report 2012/2013

Guiding principles

The Animal Health and Welfare Board for England has developed ‘Guiding Principles for Animal Health and Welfare Policy and Delivery in England’ in consultation with animal keepers and other interested parties.

The document sets out the principles that government and animal keepers should apply to animal health and welfare policy and its delivery in England and the outcomes they should jointly achieve.

The Board is looking to government and the animal keeping sectors to develop an action plan, which reflects the principles and delivers the desired outcomes.

• AHWBE Guiding principles

Forward work plan

The Board is required (under its Terms of Reference) to agree an annual forward work plan:

• AHWBE Forward Work Plan 2012 (PDF)

Further information

• Sub-groups
  The Bovine TB Eradication Advisory Group for England, Finance and Strategy sub-groups
• Ways of working
  The Board has Protocols for working with Defra’s Executive Agencies and for working with the Devolved Administrations and Other Government Departments, and a Code of Practice.
• Call for views on future bovine TB strategy and how to meet the challenges ahead
  This ran from 10 September to 19 October 2012. A Summary of Responses was published on 18 January 2013, along with reports from a series of regional bovine TB workshops held as part of the engagement.

Downloads

19 April 2013

• AHWBE Annual Report 2012/2013 (pdf, 207 KB)

14 December 2012

• AHWBE Guiding principles (pdf, 24 KB)