Worthingtons Licensing Solutions

Mark Worthington BSc(Hons) ABII, MIOL, CMS is recently retired from Northamptonshire Police having served as the County Licensing Sergeant. He became involved in the licensing arena in 1996 and has worked within that role for the last 18 years, specialising solely on Licensing issues since 2005. He is extremely experienced with licensing legislation and holds the BIIAB level 2 awards in:

Award in Assessment of Licensed Premises
National Certificate for Designated Premises Supervisor
Level 2 National Certificate for Licensing Practitioners
Level 2 National Certificate for Personal License Holders
He has also attended the Institute of Licensing course on ‘How to plan a safe event’

Whilst a serving police officer, he was a member of the ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) Licensing Advisory Sub-group. This is a small group of hand selected licensing officers from police forces across the country who are experts in their field, and provides technical advice and support to the ACPO group on licensing issues. He has also sat on a number of Home Office technical groups with reference to consultations on legislative changes. Mark has been a speaker at conferences and seminars locally, nationally and internationally; recently speaking at the European Network of Alcohol Law Enforcement annual conference in Tallinn (May 2014), and at the STAP conference on Alcohol, Health & Policy in Amsterdam (Oct 2014)
He has been a long standing volunteer with National Pubwatch; involved with the organisation since 2001 becoming a committee member in 2005. He chairs the sub-committee that organises the annual conference. He is a qualified Best Bar None assessor and coordinated the Northampton Best Bar None scheme from 2010 to 2014.