That the Parliament congratulates Inverclyde Council on winning the Best Workforce Initiative category for its Workforce Refresh programme at the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) Awards 2023; recognises that the programme began in November 2020 to help deal with the twin issues of an ageing workforce and low youth unemployment in Inverclyde by allowing council employees aged between 55 and 65 to access their pension early, while offering those vacancies to young people in Inverclyde; understands that the APSE Awards are open to local authorities from across the UK and seek to celebrate those councils that are achieving excellent results in a wide range of different service areas; further understands that Inverclyde Council submitted six entries overall, and that the quality of those entries was judged to be so high that the local authority was shortlisted for Council of the Year, and believes that this award is testament to the council’s efforts to help more young people explore careers in local government as a means to tackle an ageing workforce.