Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP) is to offer free online training to retailers to help them prevent underage sales and proxy purchase.
The course can be undertaken in-store, on a phone or laptop, and at any time. It covers the requirements of the 2003 Licensing Act, how to refuse suspected underage sales, spot attempted proxy purchases, and apply the Challenge 25 policy.
It draws on CAP’s extensive knowledge of working with retailers over the past 15 years and has been created in conjunction with CPL Training, a leader in personal licence training to the hospitality and retail markets.
The course will be available free of charge to all retailers in the 256 CAP areas of England and Wales and is adapted for separate licensing laws in Scotland.
CAP director Kate Winstanley said: “We hope independent retailers will find this short course a convenient and helpful way to ensure they have effective age verification policies in place.”
Information about the course will be distributed to retailers through the network of local CAPs around the UK.
