Health and Social Care - LGC Awards 2021
This award is open to a single council or where appropriate a partnership of councils, or a council-owned company. Private sector partners can enter on a council’s behalf, with the permission of the council itself.
With financial challenges and a growing population of older people, and people with disabilities, adult social care was under severe pressure before the Covid-19 pandemic and it is under even greater now. This award recognises how councils have worked to improve or maintain services amid these pressures.
It seeks to recognise innovative projects likely to facilitate integration between health and social care, boost personalisation, and improve collaboration between the public, private and voluntary sectors to improve delivery. This award is intended to recognise and promote best practice in this critically important area either related to or unrelated to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submissions should focus on:
- The specific local challenges you are seeking to address, the objectives you have set in response to those challenges and the steps you have taken to achieve them;
- The extent to which your council is playing a system leadership role, potentially including its engagement through an integrated care system, or with the remaining sustainability and transformation partnerships, the Health and Wellbeing Board, the Clinical Commissioning Group(s) and health and care providers;
- How your approach relates to the national context in relation to integration of health and social care and the personalisation agenda;
- The milestones you have set – particularly within the relevant timescale – and the extent to which you have achieved them.
Award entries will be judged on:
- The ambition and creativity of your approach;
- The impact of your approach, particularly in relation to evidenced benefits for citizens/ service users and patients, and resource implications;
- The extent to which you have adopted a whole systems approach;
The sustainability of the changes you have introduced.
General Entry Information
- These awards primarily cover achievement and performance in the calendar year 2020 and the first two months of 2021, and entries should have a particular focus on that period. However, judges will take into account work that began before that period, as well as achievement and performance since that period.
- The awards will reflect the fact that Covid-19 and the response to it have posed an unprecedented challenge to local government. Judges’ decisions should reflect attributes such as performance, resilience, compassion and adaptability in the face of the pandemic alongside achievement, innovation and vision. However, entries which are primarily not about the council’s pandemic response should be treated equally to those that are.
- You only have to submit a single statement explaining why you should win (up to 1,000 words).
- Please also provide a 100-word summary of your entry. Please use this as an opportunity to make a pitch to our judges about what makes your work innovative and bold.
- Please use the questions in the bullet points below as a guide and break up your submission accordingly. Some may be more applicable than others for your entry.
- Please specify which private sector partners do you work with (if any).
- While you have the option of providing supporting material, we urge you to do this sparingly, and only if you feel further evidence is required to back-up your entry. The critical information should however be included in the main part of your entry.
If you require any help with your entries contact: Rafael Younes on 020 3953 2115, email Rafael.Younes@emap.com or Jae Taylor on 020 3953 2117, email Jae.Taylor@emap.com
