LGR: Making it Work in Waste Services

Does local government reorganisation and service redesign seem complex and overwhelming? Are you keen to ensure new services are cost effective, without compromising quality? Do you have workforce and cultural issues to consider?

This new course will equip you will the skills to analyse, appraise and plan the most efficient and effective options for service delivery, within your locality. Working through both strategic and operational pathways, APSE provides a toolkit to ensure success, guided by highly experienced and expert trainers who will signpost to future resources.

Learning Outcomes:

• Review the role of local government and the purpose of reorganisation.
• Devise an information checklist to appraise the most effective options for your locality.
• Appreciate ways in which you can maximise the benefits of mergers and amalgamations, whilst minimising the disbenefits.
• Assess the strategic considerations when reorganising services.
• Evaluate the cultural and behavioural factors in managing a change process.
• Identify operational requirements and how inefficiencies can be avoided.
• Utilise financial and data benchmarking to enhance quality and provide assurance.
• Consider health and safety and other legislative requirements.
• Devise a route map for action to turn ideas into action as you move towards vestment day.

Who should attend the course?

This course is designed for a mixture of strategic and operational staff, alongside Elected members, who are exploring how best to merge services and manage change within the contact of local government reorganisation.

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