News Update

Week Ending 5th August 2005

North West Centre of Excellence North West Centre of Excellence

Waste Survey

The OGC have sent out a local authority survey for waste management via the Chief Executive Officer at each local authority in the North West.

It is important that the OGC achieve an 80% return rate to get meaningful data that will be useful to OGC and to local authorities themselves.

The information provided will be used to:

° Promote best practice

° Clarify the need for new facilities as landfill diminishes

° Improve strategic procurement in the municipal waste management sector (local authorities as a whole will become a more informed customer with improved information to hand, increasing opportunity of co-ordination between authorities)

° Provide information under the new LATS scheme

° Provide good information on demand requirements for waste services (which will improve competition and innovation from suppliers and increase market capacity)

Please see the following link for details of the survey and the supporting documents -

http://www.rcoe.gov.uk/rce/core/page.do?pageId=10108

If you need further information or wish to discuss the survey please contact Jo Molyneux, Kelly Team, OGC 01603 704783.

Local Economies Workstream

John Ryding and Jo Nettleton from the Workstream have produced an excellent briefing note on environmental and social implications of EU regulations – Please see the link to view the document:

http://www.nwce.org.uk/briefingnotesocialandenvironment.pdf

Jane Smith at St Helens has produced ‘An easy guide to the Small Business Friendly Concordat’. This is another excellent document and explains the Concordat is easy to follow guidance notes. Please see the following link:

http://www.nwce.org.uk/smallbusinessfriendlyconcordat.pdf