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Are you aged between 15 and 17 and looking for a volunteering opportunity to boost your CV?
The Public Protection Partnership is offering an excellent opportunity to do this. It can also illustrate ‘community service’ for those doing Duke of Edinburgh awards, and similar schemes, and can be used as evidence of key skills for job applications and university entrance forms,
As part of their work on community safety and the reduction of anti-social behaviour in the area, Trading Standards routinely carry out undercover purchasing of age restricted products, such as vapes, fireworks and alcohol.
In order to do this, it needs to recruit volunteers to assist with this work, which will take place out of school hours throughout the year, and be conducted under Officer supervision.
Full training will be given, and if at any time the volunteer does not wish to proceed, the operation will be cancelled.
Many volunteers use the work they do with us to assist them in finding part time jobs. it can also provide references for college and university applications. Some volunteers have even used their time towards their Duke of Edinburgh Award.
If you know of any children aged 15-17 years old, who live within the West Berkshire, Wokingham Borough or Bracknell Forest areas, and wish to apply, contact Francesca Berry at francesca.berry1@westberks.gov.uk
Due to the nature of this work, officers will discuss fully with the volunteers and their
parents/guardians, the nature and implications of the work to be carried out. A full briefing and training will then be given to all successful candidates.
The Public Protection Partnership is a shared service delivering environmental health, licensing and trading standards to people and businesses on behalf of Bracknell Forest Council, and West Berkshire Council.
PPP work jointly with Wokingham Borough Council to provide trading standards, financial investigation and case management service across the three authority areas.
These services encompass a wide range of areas of responsibility from environmental protection to fair trading, food safety to animal health, housing standards to taxi licensing, and more.
