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Awards Shortlist 2008
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Public Servant of the Year shortlist
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 | | | | Awards Shortlist 2008 | | | Service Delivery
| | Children and young people
Castle College, part of The Sheffield College
The project aims to double the number of Looked After Children (LAC) who enrolled for post 16 education and training at Sheffield College. It has been successful by making direct contact with the LAC and persuading them of the benefits of continued education.
Eighteen And Under
Eighteen and Under provides confidential support and information to victims of abuse for those aged 18 and under, and aims to prevent long term damage for adults abused in childhood.
Tomorrow's People
The Working It Out program targets young people in the NEET group (Not in Employment Education or Training) and runs courses designed to help build a route to self-sufficiency and a means of moving forward.
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Complex needs
The Bridge, Birmingham & Solihull mental health NHS trust
The Bridge, Birmingham & Solihull mental health NHS trust works to ensure patient safety, by preventing overdose and deaths among heroin addicts.
Samaritans
In November 2007, the Samaritans piloted an emotional support service via text messaging to help those who experience feelings of emotional distress and despair.
St. Christopher's Hospice
The Arts for Life project is aimed at those facing the end of life and promotes healthier attitudes to death and dying. By using the arts, they can create something that can be left behind for their families and friends. | | |
Long term conditions
Expert Patients Programme Community Interest Company
Staying Positive is a programme for young people living with long-term health conditions aimed to increase their skills and confidence to improve the management of their condition.
in Control Partnerships
in Control works to transform the current system of social care to a universal system of Self-Directed Support in which everybody is given control of their own budget. | | |
Care of older people
Connect - The Communication Disability Network
The volunteers of the Reaching Out Project are trained by people with aphasia to support people with the same disability. They encourage social engagement and boost self-esteem and confidence in elderly people with aphasia.
Penwith Older People's Forum
The Older People's Forum aims to have the voices of all the older people living in the Penwith district heard, through discussion of local issues, compilation of a constitution and inviting guest speakers to debate issues affecting elderly people.
Trust/ Hanover (Scotland)/ Bield Housing Associations
The Equal Opportunities Programme works to alleviate social and economic exclusion for older black and ethnic minority people and improve their quality of life. The programme represents their needs to policy makers, informs them of their rights, and helps them to overcome cultural and language barriers. | | |
Housing and regeneration
Blackpool council
The A&B programme is designed to tackle homelessness in Blackpool by providing a structured framework that offers a service provision to rough sleepers.
London borough of Croydon
This project was aimed at halving the number of homeless households placed in temporary accommodation, using a strategy that includes the prevention of homelessness and ensuring existing housing is safe and secure.
Sandwell metropolitan borough Council
Sandwell's Stronger Communities Fund - Neighbourhood Element (SSCF) aims to improve the quality of life for people living on Tipton's Tibbington Estate, ranked the third most deprived estate nationally for education, training and skills. | | |
Transport and mobility
Haringey council - Transport Policy and Projects
The School Travel Plan promotes sustainable transport by encouraging pupils to become independent travellers and either cycle or walk as a means of creating travel awareness.
Manchester city council
The Travel Coordination Unit was set up to provide travel solutions to Manchester's children while ensuring their safe travel to school or college.
Merseytravel
Lets Get Moving is a project that aims to remove transport as a barrier for taking up opportunities of employment or learning to those in some of Merseyside's most disadvantaged areas. | | |
Innovation and Progress
| | Sustainability
Aberdeen city council
The city council of Aberdeen has developed numerous projects across the city with the hopes of becoming the leading authority in reducing carbon dioxide emissions across Scotland. Through initiatives such as switching to renewable energy sources and conserving water usage in educational establishments, the city has seen a reduced carbon footprint for the fourth year running.
Islington council
Islington council was the first local authority to agree to the government's target, borough-wide reduction of CO2 emissions of 7% by 2010, by bringing together some of the largest emitters to create plans and partnerships with the ultimate goal of reducing emissions and implementing the use of renewable and sustainable energy.
Teignbridge district council
Teignbridge district council has become one of the greenest local authorities in the country after its recent renewed focus on tackling climate change by working to reduce the carbon footprint of the authorities. It has brought Teignbridge production of waste per head going to landfill to the second lowest in England. | | |
Transformation
Liverpool Direct Limited
Liverpool city council has created a single, corporate benefits advice team within the Benefits Service to mainstream benefits and income maximisation services, made available across the city.
London borough of Harrow
Harrow's call centre has deployed the Voice Risk Analysis (VRA), a piece of technology which aims to weed out fraudulent benefit claims and save the government money that could be better spent on public services.
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS trust
The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS trust's objective is to improve patient safety in the blood transfusion process by reducing its complexity, while simultaneously meeting new regulatory requirements. | | |
Customer Service
Glasgow city council Development and Regeneration Services
Scotcash, an independent social business, offers Glasgow citizens alternatives to high cost doorstep credit lenders and targets people in poverty or people unable to access mainstream credit to help move them on the route to financial and social inclusion.
Legal Services Commission
Community Legal Advice offers a free, confidential advice service that delivers improved access to justice and aims to combat social exclusion.
Ministry of Justice
The Small Claims Mediation Service (SCMS) was established as an alternative for people with small claims. It provides a free service to court users and an opportunity for parties to discuss their issues, resolve differences and agree to their own settlement. | | |
Partnership working
Falkirk's Children's Commission
Falkirk's Children's Commission have developed a means of engaging young people and parents in the development and delivery of services for children and young people living in the Falkirk area through the promotion of active participation.
HMP Liverpool
HMP Liverpool has teamed up with Merseyside NHS PCT, Job Centre Plus and Mercia Partnership Ltd to provide opportunities for adult males in custody.
Sandwell metropolitan borough council
'Gaming the Tibby', a programme developed by Sandwell MBC, Digital Native Academy and Midlands Architecture and the Designed Environment, uses computer gaming technology to consult and engage hard to reach groups on the regeneration of open land in the centre of the Tibbington Estate, Tipton. | | |
Diversity and equality
Deaf Parenting UK
Deaf Parenting UK is run by deaf parents for deaf parents. The project aims to empower and support parents by representing their needs, highlighting and addressing gaps in services, and working with organisations to improve access to information and services.
Reache North West
Reache North West assists asylum and refugee healthcare professionals to find work in the NHS, offering support along the way to reach an acceptable level of employability.
St George's University of London
The Widening Participation Strategy was developed to increase the number of students recruited to the university from disadvantaged backgrounds, ensuring the workforce accurately reflects the make up of society. | | |
People management
Baxter College
Baxter College was developed to create a world class institution from a failing school through the support of the stakeholders and both the management and leadership of its people.
Public Service Management Wales (PSMW)
The Wales Public Service Summer School is a development programme that aims to build the capacity of managers and leaders to deliver world-class public services, the only event of its kind in Western Europe.
Stonewall
The Diversity Champions Programme is a forum in which employers can promote lesbian, gay and bisexual equality in the workplace. Members are committed to translating legislative change into a positive employee experience. | | |
Citizenship and Volunteering
| | Herbert Smith LLP
Herbert Smith LLP assists community groups by providing free legal advice, numerous education and employment initiatives and support for homeless people in hopes of combating social exclusion, low aspiration and lack of opportunity.
Linklaters and The Learning Trust
Linklaters' Community Investment Strategy has been designed to develop employability skills in children in schools across Hackney by improving confidence and ambition.
The University of York
York Cares was developed and founded to promote employee volunteering and now leads a city-wide youth volunteering consortium that unites stakeholders from public, private and the third sector. |
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