Welfare of animals at slaughter

Guidance and services

• Home slaughter of livestock
• Closed-Circuit Television in Slaughterhouses (Wales) Regulations 2024: guidance for operators

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• CCTV in slaughterhouses: report
  Report
• Slaughter Method Survey Report 2018 for England and Wales
  Report
• Animal Welfare Committee (AWC): opinion on the welfare of goats at the time of killing
  Report
• Animal Welfare Plan for Wales 2021 to 2026
  Policy and strategy
• Animal Welfare Committee: update to the 2014 Farm Animal Welfare Committee opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing
  Report
• Animal Welfare Committee: opinion on ventilation shutdown as an emergency culling method for poultry affected by high pathogenic avian influenza
  Report