2024
- Call for entries: Annual Service Awards 2024
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These prestigious awards are for all local authorities and their public-sector partners across the United Kingdom recognising your frontline services teams as well as your special initiatives.
- Announcing the winners of the APPG and Soft FM Innovation Awards 2023/24
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Announcing the winners of the APPG Excellence in School Food Awards and the APSE Soft Facilities Management Innovation Awards 2023/24!
- APSE's response to the local government funding announcement
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The Association for Public Service Excellence has responded to the announcements made by Levelling Up Secretary, Michael Gove MP, on 24 January 2024
- No Mow May - Local Authority Registration
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This year Plantlife is inviting you to sign-up to No Mow May – the blossoming movement towards wilder green spaces.
- Stop reacting. Proactively prevent and save with Predictor
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Digital tool Predictor, part of the Brightly Software suite, is helping councils to predict problems before they arise; prioritise where to place funds, and make strategic, data-driven decisions to implement processes and solutions.
- How do we strike the right balance in public sector workforce training?
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Shailen Popat, Assistant Professor in Public Policy and Management, Birmingham University, explores whether current training practices are suited to the realities of the public sector in 2023.
- CSSC's 'Active Wellbeing' returns to break down barriers to physical activity
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CSSC CEO Matt Bazeley explains how the organisation is inspiring the Civil Service and public sector to get active in one of the biggest collaborative campaigns of the year.
- The Energy Act: APSE Energy View
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The biggest piece of energy legislation in the UK’s history seeks to bolster energy security, stimulate new investment and protect consumers - but does it go far enough? Phil Brennan, Head of APSE Energy, investigates.
- Local Government Recruitment and Retention – A Vision for 2030
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On 30 November 2023, the PPMA hosted a roundtable discussion on the possible recruitment and retention challenges that could be faced in the future by local authorities. The Commercial Services Group - partners of PPMA - report back on outcomes of the session.
- Simpler collections and tougher regulation: Waste system reform
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Abi Ademiluyi, APSE Principal Advisor, provides an outline of the changes, and looks at the impact on local authorities.
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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