Cleland Sneddon won the Martin Keeley award for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Health 2023, after being nominated by the council’s Environmental Health Manager Craig Brown.

The nomination from Craig stated: “Cleland has supported the need to adequately resource Environmental Health over a number of years and on a number of topics; in particular during EU exit food export discussions, the COVID epidemic response and more generally through SOLACE and Scottish Government’s Environmental Health Co-Ordination Group (and its precursors).

“This has enabled the Society of Chief Officers to raise significant environmental heath issues for discussion at a government level with SOLACE and COSLA support.”

Mr Sneddon said: “I was delighted to have won this award and would like to thank Craig for nominating me.

“There have been a number of challenges facing environmental health teams in recent years, and I have always sought to make sure their value to the council has been recognised, both within the organisations I worked for and at the wider SOLACE and Cosla level.”

The award sponsors were the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland and the Society of Chief Officers of Environmental Health in Scotland.

The award recognises individuals, groups or organisations for actions which have significantly promoted or improved environmental health. It is named in memory of Martin Keeley, who sadly passed away in 2022.