July / August

APSE has run a series of online events with local councils across the UK to support frontline services. Conducted on MS Teams, the seminars have provided hundreds of delegates with access to expert speakers within local government, APSE industry experts within the sector and guest speakers from member local councils, who made up the panels. You can watch showreels of the following events on the APSE website:

• Reimagining the Future of Parks (22 July) WATCH NOW
• ‘Waste heroes’ – the drive to deliver key services in the face of a pandemic (24 July) WATCH NOW
• Resilience in school catering, cleaning and janitorial services (28 July) WATCH NOW
• Continuing to provide an empathetic service whilst managing the demands of a pandemic (29 July) WATCH NOW
• Sustainable Highways and Street Lighting (31 July) WATCH NOW

 

Over the past few months local authorities have been struggling to ensure stability, while coping with the ever-shifting sands of policies, finances, staffing and partnership working, all the while, maintaining excellent, high quality services for residents and local communities. As we prepare for the autumn months, during this time of significant change, APSE Training is offering a summer sizzling selection of courses to upskill, prepare and bolster our essential frontline services. We send you a link to our virtual classroom, via Microsoft Teams, so you can enjoy the training from the comfort of your own environment – whether that’s the office, depot, home or even your garden! Click here for a full list of the courses we offer.

 

All of APSE’s courses can also be delivered as an in-house option. Please contact Fiona Sutton-Wilson at [[email protected]][email protected] to discuss further or to make arrangements for your authority.

On the 8 July 2020 the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced a wide-ranging package of tax and spending measures to kick-start Britain’s economic recovery from the coronavirus lockdown. This briefing outlines the measures that are related to the climate change and energy agenda, and in particular those that are relevant to local authorities. The briefing considers the opportunities presented for local authority green investments and the opportunities for jobs and skills – click here to read it.  For more information about this briefing, or about how APSE Energy can help your local authority, please contact Phil Brennan, Head of APSE Energy on [email protected], or Charlotte Banks, APSE Energy Research and Project Officer, on [email protected]. 

Alternatively, please visit the APSE Energy web hub.

 

Welcoming AceOn - APSE Energy's newest Approved Partner 

The Telford-based AceOn Group has been appointed an Approved Partner by APSE Energy. AceOn have over 25 years’ experience in the design and manufacture of custom-built battery packs and the distribution of industrial and consumer batteries to the worldwide market. The energy division provides a training, service and distribution centre to offer a full turnkey solution for residential and commercial battery energy storage systems. For more information about this exciting new partnership click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

#saveleisure is a digital campaign run by Community Leisure UK, ukactive, CIMSPA and supported by APSE, Swim England, Swim Wales and many other partners. We are urging the UK Government to commit relief funding to enable the full reopening and recovery of the public leisure sector accounting for the catastrophic impact of Covid-19. Without specific relief funding we estimate a third of all public leisure facilities in the UK will not reopen and half will face permanent closure by the end of the year. To learn more about the campaign click here.

• Green Investments APSE Energy Briefing Note – Click to read
• Public Accounts Committee Report - Click to read
• Draft Building Safety Bill - Click to read
• Universal Infant Free School Meals conditions of grant 2020 to 2021 - Click to read
• Council Mobile Apps - Click to read