Environmental wardens go tweeting mad
People in Allerdale can find out more about
the daily duties of the Council’s environmental wardens through
social media as part of an innovative new venture.
Allerdale Borough Council is giving the
curious-minded a chance to find out more about the work of the
environmental wardens through its Twitter account,
www.twitter.com/allerdale. The wardens will be using the hashtag
#EnvW whenever they tweet.
People will be able to follow, and interact
with, the Council’s two environmental wardens, over three weeks,
starting 7 November 2011, as they undertake their duties across the
borough, which includes enforcement of dog fouling, litter and fly
tipping legislation.
The Twitter event has been organised by the
Council as part of a bid to find new and inexpensive ways to inform
Allerdale residents about the work it does and give them a greater
understanding of the services they pay for through their council
tax, and has been made possible through ICT Connect, the shared IT
service for Allerdale Borough Council and Carlisle County
Council.
Councillor Carl Holding, Executive member with
responsibility for communications, said: “Twitter offers us a new
and very immediate way to get in touch with the people to whom we
are accountable, and I hope it will be enlightening for people in
Allerdale to find out what staff in an important frontline service
experience day-to- day.”
Councillor Michael Heaslip, Executive member
with responsibility for environmental services, added: “The work of
the environmental wardens is an important service that the Council
delivers to Allerdale residents - dog fouling and litter are
certainly subjects about which people care deeply and always have
an opinion – so I am hoping that people will follow the tweets of
the wardens and find out more about what they do.”