| APGAW LEGAL ADVISOR
Vanessa Barnes is APGAW’s legal advisor. Having studied law at undergraduate and also Masters level, Vanessa went into private practice as an associate solicitor for several years. She has also run her own smallholding rearing rare breed sheep, and keeping pigs, horses and chickens. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Animal Welfare, Policy and Legislation, from Hartbury University graduating in June 2023 with distinction. Vanessa works on a part-time basis and has been focused on the dog breeding work under APGAW’s remit.
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The Four Stages to Better Enforcement
Our new parliamentary report warns that animals across England and Wales are being failed by inconsistent and under-resourced enforcement, despite the UK having some of the strongest animal welfare laws in the world. The Four Stages to Better Enforcement sets out a...
The innate health assessment tool
Today APGAW has launched the Innate Health Assessment website and tool which was built by PetProov. There are a significant number of animals bred that can never experience a life worth living because they have been born with physical problems and pain from the very...
Frontier Economics Publishes Report into APGAW IHA
Frontier Economics, one of the largest economic consultancies in Europe, has undertaken an independent forward-looking economic appraisal of the potential benefits of introducing the APGAW Innate Health Assessment (IHA) into the regulatory landscape for dog breeding...
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