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Citizens Advice

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0808 223 1133

Services and guidance for
Businesses

Designed to meet your business needs

Our paid-for, tailored advice can help you grow and develop your business. By coming to us, you can invest in compliance confidently knowing you’re receiving advice from the experts who enforce the legislation. You can pay for advice through our Primary Authority or Buy With Confidence schemes, or on an hourly basis, allowing you to create a flexible, affordable package to meet your needs.

Buy With Confidence

Become trading standards approved

Are you a business that customers can trust? Find out more about our approved trader scheme and use our badge of approval to let people know you’re a business consumers can have confidence in.

Devon businesses can extend their Buy With Confidence membership to be part of Made in Devon.

Add your business

Services and guidance for
Agriculture

Supporting farmers and the agriculture industry

Our service covers one of the largest farming regions in the country, with tens of thousands of holdings, a number of slaughterhouses and regular livestock markets and important agricultural events held throughout the year.

As a result, advice, guidance and enforcement on animal health, welfare and disease control legislation is a high priority for us, and we aim to work alongside the agriculture industry to protect the health and welfare of livestock.

Animal disease

Defra Rural Services Helpline

Report a notifiable animal disease

03000 200 301

Services for local authorities

We offer intelligence products, accredited financial investigation and weights and measures services to other local authorities at a competitive price.

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