With increasing amounts of collaborative projects being undertaken by local authorities, LACORS and the CIEH jointly produced guidance to ensure these initiatives are successful. This interactive one-day conference provided advice to heads of service, enabling them to implement streamlined strategies to ensure efficient and effective partnership working between regulatory services.
In addition to an in-depth analysis of new guidance and an insight into managing the funding process; leading experts also explained best practice to help ensure that new collaborative ventures run in a proficient and cohesive manner.
“Joint working between local authorities is becoming increasingly important as a means of delivering quality services to residents … at an affordable cost.”
Source: DEFRA – Information for local authorities on Joint Waste Authorities (JWAs)
Published online on 25 January 2007
Aims and outcomes of this conference:
- Ensure innovative ways of thinking to support successful partnerships by combining the skills and expertise of colleagues
- Understand the financial and auditing processes involved in partnerships and apply essential efficiencies
- Better manage the funding processes of collaborative projects Increase resource capacity to improve existing services
- Understand the range of collaborative arrangements and tools available to assist in the development of successful partnerships
- Learn from innovative case studies and interactive discussion forums
Who attended?
- Heads of service who are responsible for making strategic decisions
- Environmental health heads and managers
- Trading standards managers
This conference was accredited with five hours and 25 minutes of CIEH CPD points.
This conference is in partnership with LACORS and is supported by the LGA Group.
LACORS is the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services and is a local government central body working with, and on behalf of, the UK local authority associations.
Presentations
All presentations are available to download in PDF format by entering your delegate password.