Our regulatory services form part of a National network intended to ensure a fair, safe and just market place for the protection of consumers and honest businesses.
We aim to ensure that the service is run with efficiency and care. We set ourselves targets for dealing with service requests and these are monitored regularly.
To meet this aim and to support businesses in the Wigan Council area we will provide comprehensive, easily accessible and relevant advice which will enable you to meet your legal obligations and help us to:
How to find a good business in Wigan
Through our Healthy Business Award scheme we promote the health and welfare of our food businesses and their employees though ongoing education and advice.
The Good Trader Scheme is run by trading standards in Wigan to help you find a reputable local trader you can rely on. We want to marginalise the rogue traders by promoting the good ones.
The Fair Play Charter is designed to identify businesses in the motor trade that trade fairly and meet our standards and help you to know whether you are dealing with a reputable trader. The scheme covers the sales of new and second hand cars as well as car servicing and repairs.
The Responsible Retailer Award offers a free ½ day training programme for all businesses involved in the retail of age restricted products (alcohol, cigarettes etc).
Have your say
As part of our goal to continually improve the service that we provide we are always interested to find out what people think of our service and whether we are concentrating our resources on what you, the community, would like. If you have any comments to make or would like to send your opinions as to what should be our priorities, then please send your comments to us - by post, telephone, fax or through the email link below.
