16 August 2024 - Article - Winter Fuel Payment Scams
The Winter Fuel Payment is an annual payment to help with heating costs during the colder months. The Government announced in July 2024 that, from this year onwards, to be eligible you must have reached State Pension age and also receive a qualifying means-tested benefit.
16 August 2024 - Press Release - Retailers and shoppers urged to ‘Shop a Shark’ and report postcard ads for loans
The Public Protection Partnership are urging people across Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire and Wokingham to ‘shop a shark’ by reporting postcards advertising loans in a new national campaign to crack down on illegal lenders.
15 August 2024 - Press Release - Trading Standards Officers Seize Goods at Car Boot
Officers from Public Protection Partnership visited a car boot sale in the Wokingham area on Sunday 11th August 2024 where they witnessed one trader selling counterfeit goods and another selling illegal vapes.
12 August 2024 - Press Release – The Digital Switchover
The transition from analogue phones (the phone we have at home now which runs on copper wires through the exchange) to digital is well under way with a target date now set for 2027 rather than 2025. Some people already have the digital system as telephone providers have started to install them already.
08 August 2024 - Press Release - The PPP Needs Help Identifying Source of Dumped Building Materials and Household Waste
The Public Protection Partnership is investigating a fly tipping incident on Wellers Lane in Bracknell and need your assistance to identify the source or the waste carrier.
26 July 2024 - Trading Standards Operation in Bracknell Forest and Wokingham Borough Areas
Officers from the Shared Trading Standards Service were out and about across Bracknell Forest and Wokingham Borough last week as part of an ongoing operation to identify and deal with any businesses that deliberately overcharge for unsatisfactory goods and services.
24 July 2024 - Public Protection Partnership Article – Glue Board Licensing in England
The Glue Traps (Offences) Act 2022 permits only professional pest controllers to continue to use rodent glue boards under licence and only in exceptional circumstances. The ability for pest controllers to apply for glue trap licences opened on the 19 June 2024 and the glue trap ban will come into force on 31 July 2024.
22 July 2024 – Housing Rental Scams
Action Fraud reports that the average housing rental scam victim in the UK loses £1,400 and scams typically occur when would-be tenants are tricked into paying an upfront rent fee to rent a property.
18 July 2024 - Press Release – Have Your Say on the Draft Statement of Gambling Principles
West Berkshire Council wants your views on our revised Draft Statement of Gambling Principles.
17 July 2024 – Student Housing Rental Scams
Student housing rental scams amongst college and University students are common. Fake landlords post fake adverts offering temptingly affordable accommodation.
