Freedom of information (FOI) disclosure log

Date Sent: September 10, 2026

Conclusion:

Description: AESTHETICS REGULATION AND LICENSING: COUNCIL INSPECTIONS, ENFORCEMENT AND BUSINESS SELECTION Dear Sir or Madam, Please provide recorded information concerning any local authority campaign, project, initiative or targeted inspection activity relating to businesses providing non-surgical cosmetic or aesthetic treatments. For the period 1 January 2018 to the date of this request, please provide the following. Please identify any campaign, project, targeted inspection programme, intelligence-led operation, sector compliance exercise or other organised initiative undertaken by the authority concerning businesses providing non-surgical cosmetic or aesthetic treatments. For each such activity, please provide: a. the title or description of the project; b. the date it commenced and, where applicable, ended; c. the council department or service responsible; d. the project brief, initiation document, terms of reference or equivalent recorded document; e. the recorded reason, evidence, intelligence or risk assessment used to select the cosmetic or aesthetic treatment sector for attention; f. the recorded criteria or methodology used to identify businesses for inspection, contact or investigation; g. any inspection checklist, officer briefing, guidance, procedure or instruction used for the project; h. the legislation officers were instructed to consider or enforce; i. the number of businesses contacted or inspected; j. the number receiving advice, warnings, notices, referrals, cautions, prosecutions or other enforcement action; and k. any final report, evaluation, summary or findings produced. In relation to the selection of businesses, please identify whether any of the following were used as a source: a. complaints; b. council licensing or registration records; c. social media; d. business websites or advertising; e. intelligence databases; f. referrals or information from another local authority; g. information supplied by a professional association, voluntary register, trade body, insurer, pharmacy, manufacturer, training provider or other external organisation; or h. any other recorded source. Where an external organisation supplied information or intelligence used to identify businesses, please identify that organisation.

Attachments: EIR_Response_ 1030.doc