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