CPH Programme secure funding
Following thorough review and challenge, Defra Food & Farming Group have committed to invest in the proposals, developed by the Animal Health team leading the CPH Programme, to improve livestock location information. The programme will be delivered through a number of distinct steps, with each step being subject to review and challenge to ensure value for money is delivered. The CPH programme team has set itself a challenging timeline to drive forward improvement. Complementing this, the programme team are committed to working collaboratively with all stakeholders and, throughout the next part of the programme, welcome challenge and contributions.
Overall Vision
The CPH Programme will:
• Create a maintained picture of GB livestock location which will be constantly available across the Defra network;
• Address risks associated with CTS links and SOAs
• Refresh and enforce new business rules across issuing organisations;
• Define and agree individual keeper’s land and building groupings so that movement reporting between these groupings is transparent and can be enforced, facilitating improvements through other programmes, e.g. Livestock Movement Reporting;
• Remove anomalies (e.g. temporary CPH numbers) from the current and future CPH dataset to improve data quality;
• Redefine business processes to ensure sustainability of the CPH identifier as a meaningful identifier of animal location.
Three integrated elements in our revised first steps:
• Integrated GB view of existing livestock keeper and existing land information
– Delivers the first, maintained and integrated view of livestock keeper information for GB
• Uses existing information from Animal Health (SAM) and Payment Agencies
• Uses existing, proven capability (CLAD) and resources within programme team
– Analysis of the real situation on the ground to inform key decisions
– Unique dataset immediately available to support operational delivery and interaction with keepers
• Targeted action on CTS links and SOAs
– Devise and implement approach to prevent creation of any additional CTS links
– Analyse existing links
– Review and agree with payment agencies approach to implementation of change
– Consider what action might be taken to address concerns over SOAs ahead of the introduction of Extended Use Isolation Units
• Implementing an improved approach to issuing new CPHs
– Centralise the implementation of the business rules for CPH allocation
– Integrate CPH service with CPH issuing authorities
– Update and standardise the business process to check where the business activity occurs, and verify if a new CPH is needed, or if an existing one (for the land on which the livestock are kept) can be used
Rationale for taking forward next steps
• Tangible, practical improvement coupled with maximising the future choices Defra and Animal Health have in terms of next steps.
– Building momentum and confidence.
– Creates choices in terms of the future approach to improving the quality of livestock land data
• For example, use the Payment Agencies over time to enrich the existing land parcel information, potentially exploiting on-line self-service capabilities in the future
• Analysis of the real situation on the ground to inform key decisions, for example:
– Understand the impact on keepers of the proposed new business rules and be able to have an informed conversation with the keeper community
– the approach to CTS link and SOA removal and / or acceptance
• Unique dataset immediately available to support operational delivery and interaction with keepers
– Improved data within SAM (Defra’s definitive keeper record)
– Available immediately at the outbreak of a disease
• Addressing agreed weaknesses in the current system early. Define and implement the new business rules.
– Understand the impact on keepers of the proposed new business rules and be able to have an informed conversation with the keeper community
– Bring forward activity on CTS links and SOAs recognising the concerns within FFG, Risk Pathways project and TB programme.
• Originally part of the CPH rationalisation process within the programme (components 3 and 4) and dependent on policy and legislative change;
• If agreed as the way forward discussions will be required with payment agencies and others to define in detail the approach and potential costs;
• Potential c. 39,000 keepers affected.
• Centralised and consistent processes for the issuing and management of CPH numbers moving forward – “Turning off the Tap”.