Wigan's Trading Standards service aims to promote fair, safe and honest trading in the borough, for the benefit of both consumers and local businesses. We want Wigan to be a good place to shop and relax.
To meet this aim, we work to nine service objectives:
- To disrupt traders operating in the 'informal economy'
- To prevent harm to children and nuisance caused by illegal sales of restricted products
- To prevent people becoming victims of commercial crime in their own homes
- To assist local consumers and to equip them to be more informed and confident as consumers
- To advise local businesses to help them to succeed fairly and legally
- To deal with the 'problem traders' who persistently trade unfairly
- To prevent unsafe goods from entering the market
- To ensure quality food standards and accurate labelling for local consumers
- To inspect and advise local businesses on Trading Standards legislation
The Crime & Community Team works on objectives 1-3
The Fair Trading Team works on objectives 4-6
The Standards Team works on objectives 7-9
Have your say
We want to provide the best possible service to our customers. To do this, we need to know what you think about our service. You can do this by email to ts@wigan.gov.uk. We take the views of both users and non-users of our services into account when designing our annual service plan.
