2024 shortlist
Campaign of the Year
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Derby City Council
- Destination Derby: securing the home of Great British railways
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Havering LBC
- The Havering characters
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Lewisham LBC
- A warm welcome for all
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Liverpool City Council
- Childhood development campaign – 24 magic months
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Luton BC
- Step forward Luton
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South Gloucestershire Council
- Cost of living campaign
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South Norfolk Council & Broadland DC
- T-dawg raises the bar!
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Waltham Forest LBC
- Let's talk Waltham Forest
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Wiltshire Council
- Recycling: let's sort it
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Wolverhampton City Council
- Better health: rewards
Children’s Services
- 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 & Kensington and Chelsea RBC - Westminster clinical work
- Westminster City Council & Kensington and Chelsea RBC - Virtual reality for relaxation and wellbeing in response to serious youth violence
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Community Involvement
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Cramlington Town Council
- Community at heart
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Durham CC
- Horden together
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Ealing LBC
- Let’s go Southall – fostering a collaborative ecosystem where everyone’s contribution matters
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Kensington and Chelsea RBC
- Co-designing service standards
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Lancaster City Council
- A collaborative approach to addressing the climate crisis through planning
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Lewisham LBC
- Streets trees for living
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North Northamptonshire Council
- Team LIVE
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Nottinghamshire CC
- Communities connected – community flood signage scheme
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Peterborough City Council
- School streets initiative
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Redbridge LBC
- #Thisability – Disability Awareness Festival 2023
Sponsored by
Council of the Year
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Dorset Council
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Gravesham BC
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Great Yarmouth BC
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Knowsley Council
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Oxford City Council
Sponsored by
Digital Impact
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Dumfries and Galloway Council
- Digitally delivery of qualifications @swconnects – a virtual learning campus for secondary schools across South-West Scotland
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Durham CC
- Supporting the Provider Market Team use of RITA in care homes
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East Suffolk Council
- Digital towns: transforming the future
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Hertfordshire CC
- Assistive technology for adult care services
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Lancaster City Council
- Digital dream delivers
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Stockton on Tees BC
- Revenues, benefits and welfare: simply digital
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Wokingham BC
- Developing and implementing joy – a social prescription app
Sponsored by
Diversity and Inclusion
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Birmingham City Council with Shelforce
- Where individuals with a complex diverse range of disabilities and challenges can succeed
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Cheshire West & Chester Council
- Be you campaign
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Cornwall Council
- Leading the way on equality, diversity and inclusion
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Derby City Council
- Derby health inequalities partnership
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Hull City Council
- Refugee and Asylum Seeker Team (RAST) community integration for unaccompanied asylum seeker children and young people
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Liverpool City Region CA
- Race equality programme
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Medway Council
- Trauma informed schools programme
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Tower Hamlets LBC
- Creating diverse and inclusive schools in Tower Hamlets
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Westminster City Council
- Taking action to increase representation on boards across Westminster voluntary and community organisations and supporting career development
Sponsored by
Economic Development
- Barnsley MBC - Economic development service
- Barnsley MBC - Supported employment service
- Durham CC - Delivering innovation-led growth
- Funding London - Greater London Authority - Economic development initiatives
- 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
- 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
- Oxford City Council - Electric vehicle dynamic purchasing system
- Rossendale BC - Check before you chuck
- Staffordshire CC - Warmer homes scheme
Sponsored by
Future Places
- 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
- 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
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Cheshire West & Chester Council
- Multi agency rough sleeping (MARS) partnership
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Coventry City Council
- HMO licensing – the Coventry way
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Greenwich RBC
- Multi-strand affordable housing delivery
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Haringey LBC
- Housing delivery programme
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Newham LBC
- Building A Fairer Newham – Private Rented Sector Licensing
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North Lanarkshire Council
- A warm welcome – Ukrainian resettlement
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North Lincolnshire Council
- Changing lives through a unified housing, rehabilitation and recovery approach across North Lincolnshire
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OX Place for Oxford City Council
- The curve
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West Oxfordshire DC
- The Our House Project, West Oxfordshire District Council
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Wiltshire Council
- Delivering success on the home front
Innovation
- 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
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Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council
- Skills & learning adult community education (ACE)
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Haringey LBC
- Housing delivery team
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Liverpool City Council
- Culture Liverpool – Eurovision 2023
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Medway Council
- Medway food partnership
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Newham LBC with London Network for Pest Solutions
- Raising the bar for council pest control
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Nottingham City Council
- Mental health support team
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Nottinghamshire CC
- Supporting parents as first educators
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St Helens BC
- Legal services team
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Staffordshire CC
- Staffordshire virtual school
Medium Team of the Year
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Blackpool Council
- Blackpool council’s growth and prosperity team delivering a £2bn regeneration programme
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East Riding of Yorkshire Council
- The making a change team
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Liverpool City Council
- Eurovision Song Contest Host City Communications 2023
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Merton LBC
- Air quality team at the regulatory services partnership
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Reading BC
- Mental health support team, brighter futures for children
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Southwark LBC
- Old Kent Road team, planning & growth
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Stockport MBC
- Events and hospitality team
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Tower Hamlets LBC
- Tackling poverty
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Wiltshire Council
- Coroner support service
Most Improved council
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Bath & North East Somerset Council
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Harlow Council
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Lichfield DC
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Walsall Council
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Net Zero
- 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
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Local Government Association Conservative Group
- Councillor Abi Brown
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Sandwell MBC
- Liann Brookes-Smith
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Brighton & Hove City Council
- Rachel Chasseaud
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South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership
- James Gilbert
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East Ayrshire Council
- Mark Hunter
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Lambeth LBC
- Sophie Konradsen
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North Devon Council
- Natasha Rowland
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Westminster City Council
- Serena Simon
Public Health
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Barnsley MBC
- ‘How’s thi ticker?’ a targeted community blood pressure campaign
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Colchester City Council
- Essex pedal power
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Medway Council
- Tobacco control and stop smoking service
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Sandwell MBC
- Sandwell better mental health programme
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Sandwell MBC
- Healthy ageing app public health project
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Suffolk CC with Turning Point
- From the bottom to the top – a tale of performance improvement in the treatment of opiate addiction
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Swindon BC
- Dads at their best – reducing inequalities for young fathers and their children
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Tendring DC
- Pedal power in Tendring
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Worcestershire CC
- Taking a partnership approach to reducing smoking in pregnancy
Public/Private Partnership
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Enfield LBC and Countryside Partnerships
- Working together to deliver homes in a challenging market
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Funding London
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Greater London Authority
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Gravesham BC
- Gravesham BC working with Ellenor Hospice
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Hull City Council with Yorkshire Water
- Living with water – a partnership pushing the resilience agenda
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Knowsley MBC with Shakespeare North Trust
- Partnership working delivers world-class cultural venue
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Pendle BC with Barnfield Investment Properties
- Shining the spotlight on Northlight
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South Tyneside Council
- South Tyneside pledge
Public/Public Partnership
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Brighton & Hove City Council
- Youth employment hub Brighton & Hove
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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough CA with Peterborough CC and Anglia Ruskin University
- Delivering a new university model through powerful partnership
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Hull City Council with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Therapy begins at home
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Lambeth LBC with APCOA Parking
- Lambeth lead on national blue badge day of action
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Lancaster City Council with Lancaster University
- A collaborative approach to addressing the climate crisis through planning
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Shropshire Council
- River Severn partnership
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South Norfolk Council & Broadland DC with Anglian Water
- Unlocking nutrient neutrality
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Worcestershire CC
- System Partnership: Working to reduce health inequalities in Worcestershire’s d/Deaf population
Rising Star
- 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
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Cheshire West & Chester Council
- Trading standards north west regional investigations team operation best
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Glasgow City Council
- Private rented sector housing and welfare hub
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Kingston Upon Thames RBC
- Kingston's Employment, Skills and Enterprise team – the tardis of teams
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Newcastle Under Lyme BC
- Vulnerability and housing team
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North Tyneside Council with Aurora Affordable Homes
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Rossendale BC
- Rossendale works
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South Tyneside Council
- Organisational development team
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Stockport MBC
- Mayoral development corporation leads the way in transforming Stockport town centre
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Tower Hamlets LBC
- Tower Hamlets viability
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Winchester City Council
- Homes for Ukraine – Winchester support team housing & communities