Association For Public Service Excellence

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The services apse provide include: Advisory Groups Free national and regional group meetings, covering service specific topics, providing employees of member organisations a forum to share best practice and liaise with their peers in other Local Authorities. Briefings Member authorities can add as many employees and elected members as they wish to APSE’s database, allowing them to receive free electronic copies of up to date information affecting local government. Briefing papers covering wide ranging topics are then emailed out to individuals who have selected the topic as an area of interest. Network Queries APSE has a database containing over 20,000 local authority contacts who have declared their area (s) of interest. APSE offers the facility for members to submit a question / query which is then emailed out to the relevant people on the nationwide database. This then allows their counterparts in other Local Authorities the opportunity to respond and share best practice. Performance Networks APSE has the UK’s largest local government voluntary benchmarking service. Having over 14 years of front line service data APSE works with almost 200 Local authorities providing performance information; allowing the opportunity for Authorities to seek savings and efficiency opportunities, whilst monitoring their performance. Research The association has a high level research programme (Awarded an ‘A’ rating by the ESRC) and delivers independent and commissioned research on issues...