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DORSET TRADING STANDARDS

Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service check and
approve businesses so you don’t have to.
For more information visit www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk or
call 08454 040506.
To report or seek advice about problems you have
experienced when dealing with a trader call 08454 040506.

Finding a local Trading Standards approved trader

Are you worried about rip-offs and rogue traders? If so then Dorset Council
Trading Standards can help identify reliable workers for the job you need doing.

Businesses across Dorset have signed up to the national ‘Buy with Confidence’
scheme, giving local people a wide choice of established traders committed to
fair trading and good customer service. This helps protect you as a consumer of
goods and services and it helps support reputable local.

‘Buy with Confidence’
covers all kinds of work

from plumbing and
decorating, to car
servicing and gardening,
from local business all over
the County and beyond.
Our members have been
visited in person and
audited by Trading
Standards officers to make
sure they comply with
consumer protection laws and more recently with modern day slavery
requirements for the added confidence that vulnerable workers are not being
hired to undertake work for you.
We take customer references and make sure complaint procedures are in place
if needed. In addition, criminal records checks are undertaken for staff who work
in or around your home.
It doesn’t stop there! Once a business joins ‘Buy with Confidence’ they are
monitored by Trading Standards through customer feedback, complaint
monitoring and every three years are re-visited for another audit.
We would always encourage you to choose a Dorset based trader. However, as
the ‘Buy with Confidence’ scheme is also run by all our neighbouring local

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