For pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants, hotels, off-licences and shops selling alcohol. Operational support for the Designated Premises Supervisor named on the premises licence, and for every named deputy trained to take charge when the DPS is off-site.
Stated as the underlying legislation sets it out, nothing more.
Section 19 imposes a mandatory condition on every premises licence that authorises the sale of alcohol: the licence must specify an individual as DPS, and that person must hold a valid personal licence. Where there is no validly specified DPS, or the specified DPS's personal licence has lapsed, the premises is not authorised to sell alcohol; selling anyway is an offence under section 136, a fine with no upper cap and up to six months' imprisonment on summary conviction, for conduct on or after 12 March 2015.
To be named DPS on a premises licence, an individual must hold a valid personal licence, and a personal licence is only obtained by passing a regulated licensing qualification from an accredited awarding body. PHW does not award personal licences and this pack is not that qualification. It is training and paperwork that supports a DPS who already holds a genuine personal licence, never marketed as the DPS qualification or as a personal licence course.
The DPS does not have to be on the premises for every sale of alcohol, but must retain genuine day to day responsibility for how the premises is run. A DPS in name only, with no real oversight, does not satisfy section 19 in substance, which is why delegation to a named, trained deputy needs its own record.
Role and responsibilities, deputy training, delegation and the escalation route for a review.
This pack is scoped to the DPS role under the Licensing Act 2003. It does not cover food safety, fire safety or general workplace health and safety, which sit in PHW's separate safety pack range, and it does not cover underage sales prevention or drugs awareness, which are separate packs.
A record a licensing officer can check without asking the DPS to explain it on the spot.
The pack keeps its own dated training records: who was trained, on what, the knowledge test result and the sign-off, backed by an assessment record and a premises verification statement. A candidate who completes the training and knowledge test is issued a certificate carrying a QR code. Scanning it, or looking the reference up directly, opens a live record showing who was trained, on what, and when: the same record a licensing officer or your own management can check without asking you to find a filing cabinet.
The DPS support pack is not in the PHW shop. It is quoted for your venue.