Partnership - LGC Awards 2021
This award is open to any partnership featuring two or more councils or public sector bodies or a council/councils and a private sector partner/partners. Councils no longer work in isolation. Increasingly they work with other councils, public sector bodies, private firms or voluntary sector organisations to devise more seamless, more efficient and integrated services.
This award is intended to showcase the whole range of partnership working either related to or unrelated to the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Entries should demonstrate that the partnership has brought about service improvements and/or improved efficiency, or brought about the best outcome possible amid the strains of the pandemic. Entries should specify whether the partnership is public/public or public/private as LGC retains the right to split the category at a later date depending on the level of entries.
Submissions should focus on:
- Please state clearly at the top of your submission whether your partnership is public-public (featuring just public sector bodies), or public-private/voluntary (featuring a mixture of public and private/voluntary bodies)
- Which bodies are involved in the partnership and what services are covered;
- Details of the scale of the partnership, for instance in number of people involved and value of the work it undertakes;
- A summary of governance and financial arrangements (although judges are asked to note that commercial confidentiality may mean there are legitimate limits to the information available);
- The objectives of the partnership;
- Evidence of how these objectives have been achieved;
- Evidence of a comprehensive buy-in from the partners;
- Evidence of the success of the partnership, especially in terms of measurable outcomes/ improvements to services, reduced costs and impact on residents.
Award entries will be judged on:
- Evidence that partnerships have the potential to be long-lasting, with the partnership structured to tackle whatever challenges participants face;
- The extent to which the evidence shows the partnership is improving services and/or reducing costs;
- The extent to which the partnership has added real value to the outcomes for local communities;
- The innovative nature of both the partnership itself and the work it is undertaking.
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
