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In addition, the Office for Product Safety and Standards will continue to support trading standards. This support includes training, access to experts, direct support on some cases, and ring-fenced funding for specific projects. The OPSS also undertakes enforcement on nationally significant cases. In 2022, after conducting safety testing, it issued a product safety alert on a highly dangerous product: self-feeding baby pillows. Enforcement teams ensured the removal of 469 pillows from the market. However, local authority budgets are allocated by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and local authorities rightly have discretion over the use of that budget. These amendments potentially conflict with those arrangements.