APSE Wales

All 22 councils in Wales are members of APSE and area-based activity includes 3 advisory groups which meet twice a year and are free for APSE Wales members to attend; environmental services and highways; housing and building maintenance; and healthy living. APSE Wales also has a great reputation for active seminars with high profile speakers from the National Assembly for Wales and the WLGA.

Making the connections 5 years on - what’s next? Efficiencies, collaboration and performance – Wednesday 10 June 2009

This APSE Wales event included the following speakers:

• Making the Connections – what is the future of this strategy? – Carys Evans, Local Service Board Team, National Assembly for Wales
• The efficiency challenge and making the most of resources - Vanessa Phillips, Director of Resources, Welsh Local Government Association
• Collaboration in practice; Cardiff’s neighbourhood transformation - Martin Murphy, Operational Manger for Neighbourhood Renewal, Cardiff Council
• The new Local Government (Wales) measure and measuring service performance - Huw Rees, Performance Specialist, Wales Audit Office
• Workforce issues: skills and learning across boundaries - Dominic Macaskill, Regional Manager, Head of Local Government, UNISON Wales

Click here to view the presentations

Neighbourhood management in APSE Wales

APSE has prepared a special report on neighbourhood management in Wales and Northern Ireland. For more details on how APSE's performance networks service can help your authority go to our performance networks page.

Click here to download APSE Wales and Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Management report.

APSE Wales Chair and Secretary

Chair: Cllr Arwyn Woolcock, Neath Port Talbot CBC
Vice-chair: Cllr Arnold Woolley, Flintshire

Secretary: Martin Nicholls, Head of Corporate Building Services, City & County of Swansea

APSE Wales Secretariat Support

Debbie Johns
APSE Principal Advisor

In the first instance please contact Debbie on djohns@apse.org.uk
Or by telephone 0161 772 1810
Or in writing to
Debbie Johns
APSE Wales
2nd Floor Washbrook House
Lancastrian Office Centre
32 Talbot Road
Old Trafford
Manchester
M32 0FP