APSE Northern Region Forum and Annual General Meeting
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The Forum is an ideal opportunity for officers, elected members and local authority partners and trade unions to hear about how local authorities and their partners, are using their greenspace assets to improve public health as well as promoting healthier lifestyles.
The Forum will hear about how growing evidence is highlighting the benefits the better use of greenspace by local authorities and their residents brings to collective mental and physical health improvements, as well as delivering a wide range of other community benefits such as social cohesion and empowerment.
Improvements in mental and physical health, can bring about reductions in regional health costs in areas such as obesity, heart disease, low level mental health problems etc.
Greenspaces will become more important in guaranteeing sustainable communities, communities who want to live and work and just as importantly ‘play’ in their local areas. As government funding falls and there is a greater emphasis on local authorities raising funds through local council taxes and business rates, then having attractive local environments will become more important than ever in attracting and convincing people to move to, or stay in the locality.
This forum will show how some local authorities are already reaping benefits from investing time and money in their local greenspace environments.
Presentations
Promoting excellence in public services
APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) is a not for profit unincorporated association working with over 300 councils throughout the UK. Promoting excellence in public services, APSE is the foremost specialist in local authority frontline services, hosting a network for frontline service providers in areas such as waste and refuse collection, parks and environmental services, cemeteries and crematorium, environmental health, leisure, school meals, cleaning, housing and building maintenance.
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