Events

Northern Centre Update Event and AGM 

MS Teams

10:45am – Registration

 11:00am – Kathryn Clarke: Protecting the public through enforcement and licensing of farm visit experiences

Kathryn Clarke has worked as an Environmental Health Officer for 25 years, spending 11 years at Aberdeen City before moving to Aberdeenshire.  She recently covered a Team Manager’s Maternity Post where she was responsible for Health and Safety and Licensing.  Glad to be back in her SEHO roles where she has lead roles in Public Health and Caravan Site Licensing.

11:45am – Coffee Break

12:00pm until 13:30pm (approx) – AGM (Agenda being finalised)

The Northern Centre wishes to remind members they are free to put forward nominations for the below posts:

• NC Chair
• NC Secretary
• NC Vice Chair (unofficial)
• EHO North
• Other than EHO

Each nomination needs two proposers and a bio to be submitted prior to the AGM. Please send these nominations directly to the Northern Centre Secretary  –   deepa.joshi@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

• NC Committee Members

Book your place to attend via link to booking form below:

Booking Form: Northern Centre Update Event and AGM 2026

REHIS Southern Centre Event 

Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (Martyn’s Law) and Event Safety

Thursday 22nd October- 1.00pm- 4.00pm

MS Teams

Martyn’s Law is expected to come into force in Spring 2027, and the questions have already started arriving at licensing desks and SAG tables across Scotland.

• Does this apply to us?
• Who is responsible when the council owns the park and a company runs the concert?
• What does “800 people” actually count? And:
• Where does a SAG stop asking and a regulator start deciding?

This session seeks to answer those questions from the practitioner’s side of the table.

Ross Macdonald spent his earlier career as Head of Explosives Safety for the Ministry of Defence and leading personnel and physical security governance and in Westminster, and now runs a health, safety and security and compliance consultancy in Argyll.

He has spent the last year building an assurance framework against the Act as enacted, the Home Office statutory guidance and the July 2026 notification regulations.

The first part of the session covers the law as it stands:

• scope tests,
• two tiers,
• four procedures every qualifying premises must have,
• four measures the enhanced tier adds,
• notification timeframes, and
• what the Security Industry Authority has said about how it will regulate.

The second part will be a worked example: “Lochmount Summer Festival”.

Twelve hundred people, a fenced park, a stage, a bar and an organiser who has hired the site from “Lochmount Council.”

We will all run the assessment, then change variables, one fact at a time.

Each change produces a different answer, and each answer produces a question a SAG can legitimately ask.

You will leave with a plain-language guide to the main checks under the Act, a set of seven worked examples, and a clear view of the line between scrutiny and regulation, so your SAG can do its job without doing the SIA’s.

REHIS Members (including student members): £20

Non Members: £50

To book your place on this course, please follow link below:

Booking Form: Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (Martyn’s Law) and Event Safety

Investigative Interview Training
17, 18 & 19 November 2026
Venue: STEP Stirling, FK7 7RP

This three-day Investigative Interview Training Course is being delivered on behalf of the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) by Barnsley & Barnsley, who have successfully delivered investigative interviewing and enforcement training to Local Authorities and Government Agencies across the UK for many years.

Following the success of previous REHIS courses, this programme has been designed specifically for Authorised Officers, combining practical skills development with the latest legal and procedural guidance. Previous delegates particularly valued the realistic interview exercises, expert tuition and direct relevance to their enforcement roles.

Jim Robertson, former Senior Procurator Fiscal will join the course on Days 2 and 3 to support practical exercises and provide valuable insight into evidential and legal requirements within the Scottish criminal justice system.

The course will include consideration of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 and the Draft Code of Practice on the Questioning and Recording of Questions of Persons Suspected of Committing Offences.

Event Fee*
REHIS Member £600
Non-Member     £850
*Includes course materials, lunch and refreshments

Places are limited to 15 so early booking is recommended.

Bookings can be made using the MS Form link REHIS Investigative Interview Training – Booking form

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