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AGM and Free afternoon event: Exploring partnership and innovation in air quality action planning

Thursday 13th June 2013
Birmingham

Posted: May 2013

The LES Partnership is hosting a free afternoon event in Birmingham on the 13th June. It will include a brief overview of the Partnership and the benefits of being involved, followed by a practitioner workshop, exploring ‘partnership and innovation in air quality action planning.’

Participation is open to all local authority officers with an interest in low emission strategies and air quality action plans, though numbers are limited. Further details and full agenda will be circulated shortly. The event is free to attend and CPD certificates will be available.

The event forms part of the Partnership’s Annual General Meeting, with formal business to be completed earlier during a short morning session (attendance at the morning session is by invitation, as it is intended for existing members of the LES Partnership Board and Project Teams).

Outline Agenda

Morning Session – Partnership Business (By invitation)

A short morning session covering formal Partnership business, including:

Adoption of 2013/14 management plan
Appointment of Partnership executives
Agreement of revised forms of membership and association
Discussion of partnership development 2013-2015

Afternoon Session – Partnership Introduction and Practitioner Workshop (Open invite)

A short introduction to and update on the Partnership, including:

Organisation structure and development plans
Revised forms of membership and how to take advantage of them
Opportunities and benefits of working in partnership with other local authorities
Progress on implementing the Partnerships own Air Quality Action Plan (work programme 2013/14)

Followed by a workshop session, comprising a series of short presentations and group discussion around the policy, planning and implementation of low emission strategies and air quality action plans. Learning from this session will inform Defra funded research on action planning, which is being undertaken by the Partnership.

Overall aims of the session are to:

Strengthen and encourage partnership working amongst local authorities; and
Spark discussion and debate on innovation in action planning.

Early Evening

Those who have time afterwards will be invited to join us for a drink and continued discussions.

Registration

Please register early by emailing [email protected] We will initially restrict allocations to two per authority. We will also maintain a reserve list where additional representatives are interested in attending. We will allocate any remaining places to the reserve list no later than one week in advance.

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