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