Delivering and enforcing the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy: Managing the Delivery Chain - delivery partners
Animal Health
Animal Health (previously known as the State Veterinary Service) was established as an Executive Agency of Defra on 1 April 2005. Managing the Delivery Chain Core Team (MDC) are the focal point in representing the Food & Farming Group (FFG) interests with the Agency. The team works closely with Animal Health, particularly in the area of performance management. The Animal Health Delivery Review Board was set up as a forum for the exchange of information between Animal Health and FFG, to consider crosscutting issues, which may have implications wider than individual programmes, and to discuss priorities.
Animal Health are developing a “Network of Expertise” to build effective engagement with our programmes/projects/policies.
Local Authorities – Framework Agreement
The team is responsible for oversight of the Framework
Agreement 
(228 KB) on the structured delivery of services in Animal Health and Welfare in partnership between Defra, Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) and Local Authorities (LAs) through Local Authorities Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS). As part of the Framework Agreement, the team continue to manage the web based secure enforcement database - the Animal Health & Welfare Management & Enforcement System (AMES). This database is accessible to all those involved in the Framework Agreement, including Defra HQ, Animal Health, LACORS and individual LAs across England and Wales.
Data held under AMES is covered by the Data Protection Act 1998. Please see the below link for further details.
Other delivery partners
Other delivery partners, including the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS), Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) and Veterinary Laboratory Agency (VLA), also fall under the remit of the Managing the Delivery Chain Core Team.
National road traffic exercise V79
On 31 March 2006 Defra participated in a national road traffic exercise (codename V79). The exercise was a joint operation between Defra, the Department for Transport (DfT), and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), involving local police forces, LAs, LACORS and the Animal Health.
Defra and DfT jointly funded the operation. This exercise was a repeat of the first one which took place in 2004. 58 Local Authorities and 51 police forces took part this year. Defra's objective in participating was to undertake a random check of livestock transport for compliance with animal health and welfare legislation, thus providing a snapshot of the level of compliance with current legislation.
- Full report
(1.77 MB - Warning: this is a large file)
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23 May, 2008