EURCAW-Pigs provides:

Examples of training plans and materials used in different Member States in English, to the extent possible.
Quality standards, advice, templates, and technical support. These are provided in English so that they can be used by all EU member states. Training and education suggestions may include, for example, calibration between inspectors, seminars, lectures on new legislation, lectures on the biological basis of legislation, and communication workshops.
Training suggestions for improvement of communication skills and ways to support inspection-driven welfare improvement.

EURCAW-Pigs also supports the 'Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF)' training sessions on Animal Welfare. For an update on suspension of BTSF training sessions due to COVID-19, see BTSF website.

Inspection-driven improvement

Communication to handle ambivalence and make changes happen on farm.

Farmers, inspectors and animal welfare: possibilities for change - This review provides guidelines, organized around the following three categories: transparency and efficiency of inspection, communication, and step-wise approaches towards compliance.

Farmers, inspectors and animal welfare: possibilities for change. A Review (version 1.0), EURCAW-Pigs; Authors: Overstreet, K., Anneberg. I., 2020
Related news item: Farmers, inspectors and animal welfare: possibilities for change, news EURCAW-Pigs, February 2020

Improving communication – relevant tools and resources - This document provides suggestions for communication methods that could be incorporated into ongoing inspector trainings. See also newsitem

Improving communication – relevant tools and resources, EURCAW-Pigs; Authors Overstreet, K., Anneberg, I., 2020
Related news item: Communication training for inspectors, news EURCAW-Pigs, September 2020

Review on responsive approaches to inspection processes - This review suggests different approaches that inspectors and competent authorities can use to develop the inspection procedures. It aims at rethinking and developing responsive approaches to the communication part of the inspection process.

Review on responsive approaches to inspection processes, EURCAW-Pigs; Authors Anneberg, I., Rousing, T., 2021
Related news item: Responsive approaches for improving inspection processes, news EURCAW-Pigs, February 2022

Inspection and communication