From January 2026 many councils have new FSA performance targets: every “high-risk” business must be visited within a set window or the council loses funding.

Result: officers are under pressure to hit visit numbers. That means more unannounced inspections, less flexibility, and zero tolerance for missing paperwork.

The cafés and food trucks that sail through are the ones whose records are instantly available and 100 % complete. Ten-second PDF export beats twenty minutes of folder-searching every single time.

Get the system sorted now and 2026 becomes the easiest year you’ve ever had.