Public Health - 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.
The social determinants of health and the impact of health inequalities have both attained significant prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic and the importance of public health has never been higher on the public agenda.
Local government’s role in public health presents a major opportunity for councils and their partners to protect and improve the health and wellbeing of their local communities, and – in these difficult times – to make local populations less at risk of Covid-19.
Entries are likely to focus on the development of evidence-based solutions to reduce health inequalities, the impact of the work in question such as better health and wellbeing, and (potentially) how the totality of the council’s work is helping to achieve the objectives in question. And it could reflect the council’s work against Covid. This award is intended to recognise the councils that are making the most of their role in public health.
Submissions should focus on:
- Setting out the public health priorities the council has adopted and the reasons for doing so;
- How you are using evidence to develop effective strategies;
- Evidence of strong performance with regards to the strategies in question;
- They may potentially set out how public health is being integrated across the council and ow the work is coordinated with that of partner organisations;
Award entries will be judged on:
- The boldness and vision behind the council’s strategies;
- Evidence showing the council’s work is having an impact on broader population health or on specific public health objectives;
- The extent to which you have implemented evidence-based solutions to public health problems;
- How cross-departmental and partnership working is having an impact;
- How you are overcoming barriers to implementation.
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
