What service area training or skills development do you provide? Click below to expand.
- StreetScene supervisory skills
- Managing cemeteries and crematoria
- Health and safety in waste and environmental services
- Managing allotments
- Tools for efficiencies and savings in street cleansing
- Green deal and biomass
- Renewables and climate change
- Preparing for a grounds maintenance or street cleansing in-house bid
- Clean Neighbourhoods Act (Northern Ireland)
- CRB and good recruitment practice for line managers
- The localism act
- CDM regulations
- Accident investigation
- Corporate manslaughter and corporate homicide
- Health and safety in waste and environmental services (for managers)
- Health and safety in waste and environmental services (for frontline supervisors)
- Managing alcohol and drug misuse
- Managing Contractors safely
- Health and Safety for senior managers
- Catering and cleaning supervisory skills
- Tools for efficiencies in building cleaning,
- Preparing for an in-house cleaning bid
- Developing your lunchtime supervisors (taster sessions for Heads and catering managers)
- Getting the most out of lunchtimes at school (for lunchtime supervisors)
- Train the trainer ( for internal staff to deliver)
- Cleaning in food premises – a manager’s overview
- Raising the issue of healthy weight
- CRB and good recruitment practice for line managers
- The localism act
- Marketing your service area
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Making the most of the media
- Executive Media Training “handling the press conference”
- Project management in local government
- Senior managers PRINCE2® overview
- Project management in leisure services
- Supervisory skills in housing and building maintenance repairs
- Managing gas contracts
- Gas safety awareness for front line staff
- CDM 2007 regulations
- CDM refresher training
- CRB and good recruitment practice for line managers
- The localism act
- Preparing for a leisure services in-house bid
- Supervisory skills in leisure, culture and sport
- Project management in leisure
- Leadership, managing and communicating change
- The manager as team leader and coach
- Time management
- Negotiation skills
- Service level agreements
- Managing attendance
- Procurement
- The Localism Act
- Finance for operational managers
- Handling difficult conversations
- CRB and good recruitment practice for line managers
- Making community engagement and consultation work
- Using the Public Sector Scorecard- a Masterclass approach to performance management
- Enhancing your writing skills
- Charging and Trading
How can I access training via APSE?
We give you a choice of delivery:
Public courses
- aimed at operational front line service sectors
- topical and relevant training events
- offered at venues throughout the UK
What is on offer now? full list of forthcoming courses
Masterclasses
- providing a higher level specialism
- can include legal advice and guidance
- offered at venues throughout the UK
What is on offer now? current Masterclasses
In-house course
- On site at your authority
- At times and dates to suit
- Made bespoke to your service needs
- Elected member workshops
- Bespoke legal updates
- Policy and strategic development
- For newly elected and experienced councillors
How do I arrange an in-house event?
Contact Jan Kennedy to discuss your requirements and tailor a course to your particular needs
What are the costs of attending a course?
check here for full details
What else have APSE delivered?
check here for previous courses delivered. | 
