Lib Dem controlled Stockport Council in National Good Practice Report.

3.21.41am BST (GMT +0100) Tue 3rd Oct 2006

Stockport has made a starring appearance in the Audit Commission's new "Good Practice " publication. Two of the Stockport good practice case studies appear in the printed publication and a further two appear in the associated on-line web tool. No other authority has as many as Four good practice case studies in this national report.

The 4 case studies were :

Ensuring Effective Waste Services. ( CLEANER )

Improvement and Protection of Urban Green Space. ( GREENER )

Good Performance in tackling youth offending through effective partnership working and an effective offender strategy. ( SAFER )

Achieving improvement to health and surrounding environment through stopping smoking programme and smoke free establishments. ( STRONGER )

The report and web tool can be found online at :

http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/cpa/stcc/stcclearning.asp?page=index.asp&area=hplink