2024 Winners

Campaign of the Year

Winner: Liverpool City Council - Childhood development campaign – 24 magic months
Highly Commended: Wolverhampton City Council - Better health: rewards

Shortlist

  • Derby City Council - Destination Derby: securing the home of Great British railways
  • Havering LBC - The Havering characters
  • Lewisham LBC - A warm welcome for all
  • Liverpool City Council - Childhood development campaign – 24 magic months
  • Luton BC - Step forward Luton
  • South Gloucestershire Council - Cost of living campaign
  • South Norfolk Council & Broadland DC - T-dawg raises the bar!
  • Waltham Forest LBC - Let's talk Waltham Forest
  • Wiltshire Council - Recycling: let's sort it
  • Wolverhampton City Council - Better health: rewards

Children’s Services

Winner: Birmingham Children's Trust - Being the best we can be
Highly Commended: Wakefield MDC - Transforming children's services: a national challenge tackled locally

Shortlist

  • Birmingham Children's Trust - Being the best we can be
  • Dundee City Council - Promise to our care experienced children and young people
  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Voices mean choices
  • Sheffield City Council - Sufficiency strategic intent
  • Stockport MBC - Family drug and alcohol court
  • Wakefield MBC - Transforming children's services: a national challenge tackled locally
  • Westminster City Council & Kensington and Chelsea RBC - We got u, u got this
  • Westminster City Council - Westminster clinical work
  • Westminster City Council - Virtual reality for relaxation and wellbeing in response to serious youth violence

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Community Involvement

Winner: Cramlington Town Council - Community at heart

Shortlist

  • Cramlington Town Council - Community at heart
  • Durham CC - Horden together
  • Ealing LBC - Let’s go Southall – fostering a collaborative ecosystem where everyone’s contribution matters
  • Kensington and Chelsea RBC - Co-designing service standards
  • Lancaster City Council - A collaborative approach to addressing the climate crisis through planning
  • Lewisham LBC - Streets trees for living
  • North Northamptonshire Council - Team LIVE
  • Nottinghamshire CC - Communities connected – community flood signage scheme
  • Peterborough City Council - School streets initiative
  • Redbridge LBC - #Thisability – Disability Awareness Festival 2023

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Council of the Year

Winner: Great Yarmouth BC

Shortlist

  • Dorset Council
  • Gravesham BC
  • Great Yarmouth BC
  • Knowsley Council
  • Oxford City Council

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Digital Impact

Winner: Wokingham BC - Developing and implementing joy – a social prescription app
Highly Commended: Dumfries and Galloway Council - Digitally delivery of qualifications @swconnects – a virtual learning campus for secondary schools across South-West Scotland

Shortlist

  • Dumfries and Galloway Council - Digitally delivery of qualifications @swconnects – a virtual learning campus for secondary schools across South-West Scotland
  • Durham CC - Supporting the Provider Market Team use of RITA in care homes
  • East Suffolk Council - Digital towns: transforming the future
  • Hertfordshire CC - Assistive technology for adult care services
  • Lancaster City Council - Digital dream delivers
  • Stockton on Tees BC - Revenues, benefits and welfare: simply digital
  • Wokingham BC - Developing and implementing joy – a social prescription app

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Diversity and Inclusion

Winner: Derby City Council - Derby health inequalities partnership
Highly Commended: Birmingham City Council with Shelforce - Where individuals with a complex diverse range of disabilities and challenges can succeed

Shortlist

  • Birmingham City Council with Shelforce - Where individuals with a complex diverse range of disabilities and challenges can succeed
  • Cheshire West & Chester Council - Be you campaign
  • Cornwall Council - Leading the way on equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Derby City Council - Derby health inequalities partnership
  • Hull City Council - Refugee and Asylum Seeker Team (RAST) community integration for unaccompanied asylum seeker children and young people
  • Liverpool City Region CA - Race equality programme
  • Medway Council - Trauma informed schools programme
  • Tower Hamlets LBC - Creating diverse and inclusive schools in Tower Hamlets
  • Westminster City Council - Taking action to increase representation on boards across Westminster voluntary and community organisations and supporting career development

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Economic Development

Winner: Barnsley MBC - Supported employment service
Highly Commended: Islington LBC - LIFT: leading inclusive futures through technology

Shortlist

  • Barnsley MBC - Economic development service
  • Barnsley MBC - Supported employment service
  • Durham CC - Delivering innovation-led growth
  • Funding London - Greater London Authority - Fostering Economic Development Through SME Investment
  • Haringey LBC with Policy in Practice - Reduce barriers to work with data led employment campaigns
  • Islington LBC - LIFT: leading inclusive futures through technology
  • Liverpool City Region CA and Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Recruitment: a prescription for success
  • Surrey CC - Economy & growth team
  • Tees Valley CA - Transforming Tees Valley

Environmental Services

Winner: Herefordshire Council - Luston wetland pilot project
Highly Commended: Aberdeen City Council - Meadow-in-a-box

Shortlist

  • Aberdeen City Council - Meadow-in-a-box
  • Cheshire West & Chester Council - Fly tipping
  • Gloucester City Council - ERDF ‘urban greening’ project
  • Hackney LBC - Hackney's flash food waste trial
  • Herefordshire Council - Luston wetland pilot project
  • Rossendale BC - Check before you chuck
  • Staffordshire CC - Warmer homes scheme

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Future Places

Winner: Edinburgh City Council - Trams to Newhaven project 2023
Highly Commended: Barnet LBC - A brilliant new gateway: Brent Cross West station
Highly Commended: Hammersmith & Fulham LBC - Future places – clean air neighbourhood scheme

Shortlist

  • Barnet LBC - A brilliant new gateway: Brent Cross West station
  • Edinburgh City Council - Trams to Newhaven project 2023
  • Essex CC - The Essex climate focus area
  • Hammersmith & Fulham LBC - Future places – clean air neighbourhood scheme
  • Oxford City Council - Electric vehicle dynamic purchasing system
  • West London Alliance - Shaping a digital West London

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Health and Social Care

Winner: Newham LBC - Independent Living Support Service (ILSS) trusted assessors

Shortlist

  • Cheshire West & Chester Council - Complex care and review team
  • Dorset Council, BCP Council, NHS Dorset and Dorset Healthcare (ICB) - Pan dorset s117 aftercare strategic partnership
  • Isle of Wight Council - Community falls response
  • Newham LBC - Independent Living Support Service (ILSS) trusted assessors
  • Redbridge LBC - How do you redesign adults social care to give better outcomes for residents?
  • Scottish Borders Council - Care at Home Service – Defining the path for council-wide digital transformation
  • Walsall Council - Walsall together
  • Wolverhampton City Council - OneWolverhampton – a proactive and integrated approach to winter planning

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Housing

Winner: North Lanarkshire Council - A warm welcome – Ukrainian resettlement

Shortlist

  • Cheshire West & Chester Council - Multi agency rough sleeping (MARS) partnership
  • Coventry City Council - HMO licensing – the Coventry way
  • Greenwich RBC - Multi-strand affordable housing delivery
  • Haringey LBC - Housing delivery programme
  • Newham LBC - Building A Fairer Newham – Private Rented Sector Licensing
  • North Lanarkshire Council - A warm welcome – Ukrainian resettlement
  • North Lincolnshire Council - Changing lives through a unified housing, rehabilitation and recovery approach across North Lincolnshire
  • OX Place for Oxford City Council - The curve
  • West Oxfordshire DC - The Our House Project, West Oxfordshire District Council
  • Wiltshire Council - Delivering success on the home front

Innovation

Winner: Hertfordshire CC - Assistive technology for adult care services

Shortlist

  • Coventry City Council - Urban-air port – worlds first vertiport
  • Derby City Council with ICS.AI - Forward-thinking AI vision – embracing technology to enhance community engagement
  • Hertfordshire CC - Assistive technology for adult care services
  • Norfolk CC - Artificial intelligence and adult social care prevention
  • Shropshire Council - A new ‘mixed economy’ model for highways maintenance
  • South Cambridgeshire DC - A four-day week trial
  • Wakefield MBC - Innovating children's services: a national challenge tackled locally
  • Warwick DC with Mobysoft - Innovating to empower: automated arrears prevention

Large Team of the Year

Winner: Liverpool City Council - Culture Liverpool – Eurovision 2023

Shortlist

  • Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council - Skills & learning adult community education (ACE)
  • Haringey LBC - Housing delivery team
  • Liverpool City Council - Culture Liverpool – Eurovision 2023
  • Medway Council - Medway food partnership
  • Newham LBC with London Network for Pest Solutions - Raising the bar for council pest control
  • Nottingham City Council - Mental health support team
  • Nottinghamshire CC - Supporting parents as first educators
  • St Helens BC - Legal services team
  • Staffordshire CC - Staffordshire virtual school

Medium Team of the Year

Winner: Merton LBC - Air quality team at the regulatory services partnership

Shortlist

  • Blackpool Council - Blackpool council’s growth and prosperity team delivering a £2bn regeneration programme
  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council - The making a change team
  • Liverpool City Council - Eurovision Song Contest Host City Communications 2023
  • Merton LBC - Air quality team at the regulatory services partnership
  • Brighter Futures for Children - Mental health support team, brighter futures for children
  • Southwark LBC - Old Kent Road team, planning & growth
  • Stockport MBC - Events and hospitality team
  • Tower Hamlets LBC - Tackling poverty
  • Wiltshire Council - Coroner support service

Most Improved council

Winner: Walsall Council
Highly Commended: Harlow Council

Shortlist

  • Bath & North East Somerset Council
  • Harlow Council
  • Lichfield DC
  • Walsall Council

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Net Zero

Winner: Lancaster City Council - People powered policy

Shortlist

  • Calderdale MBC - A net zero landscape
  • Durham CC - Horden minewater project
  • Essex CC - Transforming Essex to a net zero county
  • Hammersmith & Fulham LBC - Embedding climate culture
  • Kent CC - Digital inclusion & capabilities (Digital Kent)
  • Lancaster City Council - People powered policy
  • South Tyneside Council - Viking energy network Jarrow
  • Sutton LBC - Green enterprise partnership: delivering innovative green tax incentives for local businesses
  • Tees Valley CA - Powering the UK's journey to net zero
  • Westminster City Council - Waste and Cleansing Fleet Decarbonisation

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Outstanding Individual Contribution

Winner: Westminster City Council - Serena Simon
Highly Commended: East Ayrshire Council - Mark Hunter

Shortlist

  • Local Government Association Conservative Group - Councillor Abi Brown
  • Sandwell MBC - Liann Brookes-Smith
  • Brighton & Hove City Council - Rachel Chasseaud
  • South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership - James Gilbert
  • East Ayrshire Council - Mark Hunter
  • Lambeth LBC - Sophie Konradsen
  • North Devon Council - Natasha Rowland
  • Westminster City Council - Serena Simon

Public Health

Winner: Barnsley MBC - ‘How’s thi ticker?’ a targeted community blood pressure campaign
Highly Commended: Swindon BC - Dads at their best – reducing inequalities for young fathers and their children

Shortlist

  • Barnsley MBC - ‘How’s thi ticker?’ a targeted community blood pressure campaign
  • Colchester City Council & Tendring District Council - Essex pedal power – Colchester & Tendring
  • Medway Council - Tobacco control and stop smoking service
  • Sandwell MBC - Sandwell better mental health programme
  • Sandwell MBC - Healthy ageing app public health project
  • Suffolk CC with Turning Point - From the bottom to the top – a tale of performance improvement in the treatment of opiate addiction
  • Swindon BC - Dads at their best – reducing inequalities for young fathers and their children
  • Worcestershire CC - Taking a partnership approach to reducing smoking in pregnancy

Public/Private Partnership

Winner: Knowsley MBC with Shakespeare North Trust - Partnership working delivers world-class cultural venue

Shortlist

  • Enfield LBC and Countryside Partnerships - Working together to deliver homes in a challenging market
  • Funding London-Greater London Authority - Enhancing startup support through public-private partnerships
  • Gravesham BC - Gravesham BC working with Ellenor Hospice
  • Hull City Council with Yorkshire Water - Living with water – a partnership pushing the resilience agenda
  • Knowsley MBC with Shakespeare North Trust - Partnership working delivers world-class cultural venue
  • Pendle BC with Barnfield Investment Properties - Shining the spotlight on Northlight
  • South Tyneside Council - South Tyneside pledge

Public/Public Partnership

Winner: Shropshire Council - River Severn partnership
Highly Commended: Brighton & Hove City Council - Youth Employment Hub Brighton & Hove

Shortlist

  • Brighton & Hove City Council - Youth employment hub Brighton & Hove
  • Cambridgeshire & Peterborough CA with Peterborough CC and Anglia Ruskin University - Delivering a new university model through powerful partnership
  • Hull City Council with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - Therapy begins at home
  • Lambeth LBC with APCOA Parking - Lambeth lead on national blue badge day of action
  • Lancaster City Council with Lancaster University - A collaborative approach to addressing the climate crisis through planning
  • Shropshire Council - River Severn partnership
  • South Norfolk Council & Broadland DC with Anglian Water - Unlocking nutrient neutrality
  • Worcestershire CC - System Partnership: Working to reduce health inequalities in Worcestershire’s d/Deaf population

Rising Star

Winner: Paul Sullivan - Monmouthshire CC
Highly Commended: Ben Murray - St Helens BC

Shortlist

  • Luke Green - Stockport MBC
  • Peter Kemp - Greater London Authority
  • Sam Marshall - Surrey CC
  • Emily Jayne Morgan - Sandwell MBC
  • Ben Murray - St Helens BC
  • Molly Pritchard - Kensington and Chelsea RBC
  • Paul Sullivan - Monmouthshire CC
  • Martin Whitchurch - Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council

Small Team of the Year

Winner: Stockport MBC - Mayoral development corporation leads the way in transforming Stockport town centre

Shortlist

  • Cheshire West & Chester Council - Trading standards north west regional investigations team operation best
  • Glasgow City Council - Private rented sector housing and welfare hub
  • Kingston Upon Thames RBC - Kingston's Employment, Skills and Enterprise team – the tardis of teams
  • Newcastle Under Lyme BC - Vulnerability and Rough Sleeper’s Team
  • North Tyneside Council with Aurora Affordable Homes - Aurora Affordable Homes -A small team with big ideas on how to “Build a Better North Tyneside”
  • Rossendale BC - Rossendale works
  • South Tyneside Council - Organisational development team
  • Stockport MBC - Mayoral development corporation leads the way in transforming Stockport town centre
  • Tower Hamlets LBC - Tower Hamlets viability
  • Winchester City Council - Homes for Ukraine – Winchester support team housing & communities