LATS

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LATS Local authority visits by the EA
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LATS LA visits Objectives Timetable

• Look at processes systems in place to collect,
  quality assure report LATS data.
• Aims
• To identify best practise
• To share common issues
• To look at ways to improve data consistency
  accuracy
• Prioritisation exercise during February
• EA team to visit 24 local authorities during
  March April
• Feedback to those LAs by end May
• Publication of findings by end June

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LATS LA visits Prioritisation criteria

• Risk-based desktop exercise covering
• Reporting validation compliance
• Training succession planning of staff for WDF
• Communicating with WDF Helpdesk
• Variations in reported MSW over time
• Recycling diversion rates
• Exporting MSW
• Using MRFs
• All authorities will be visited over 3 years.

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LATS LA visits Audit Content