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Liverpool City Council Stockton on Tees Borough Council/
NHS Stockton on Tees
in the delivery of the service and contributed greatly to the
financial performance of the service, and the council as a
whole, following the significant reductions to operational
budgets implemented following the Government’s
Comprehensive Spending Review in 2010.
Best Health & Wellbeing initiative
Kindly sponsored by UNISON
Birmingham City Council
Durham County Council
Fife Council
Leeds City Council
Manchester City Council
South Yorkshire Police
Stockton on Tees Borough Council/ NHS
Stockton on Tees
Winner: Stockton on Tees Borough Council/
NHS Stockton on Tees
Reducing Excess Winter Deaths in Stockton-on-Tees
Cold weather increases the risk of many health
conditions, contributes to social isolation and reduces
an individual’s ability to live independently. In Stocktonon-Tees,
approximately 106 more people die in winter
months compared with other times of the year. A large
number of these Excess Winter Deaths are preventable.
This health and wellbeing initiative is reducing Excess
Winter Deaths through effective partnership working,
the targeting of interventions, joint commissioning and
joint provision of health, social care and housing
services.
Best Public/ Private Partnership Working
Kindly sponsored by Eversheds
Amey
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Caerphilly County Borough Council
East Lothian Council
Flintshire County Council
Hull City Council
London Borough of Havering
Renfrewshire Council
West Lindsey District Council
Winner: London Borough of Havering
London Borough of Havering
The Banking Protocol
The ‘Banking Protocol’ has been developed as a good
practise guideline for banking transactions; to be
implemented and used by private sector banking staff.
The scheme has been developed by the London Borough
of Havering (LBH) in partnership with local banks,
Metropolitan Police, Community Police Consultative
Group and Age Concern. The purpose of the scheme is to
protect the Borough’s older and vulnerable residents by
safeguarding cash withdrawals.
Best Public/ Public Partnership Working
Kindly sponsored by Liberata
Dorset Waste Partnership (Dorset County
Council)
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Guildford Borough Council (Surrey Waste
Partnership)
London Borough of Merton
North, East & South Ayrshire Councils
Renfrewshire Council
South Lanarkshire Council
South Yorkshire Police
Xentrall Shared Services (the Stockton and
Darlington Partnership)
Winner: North, East & South Ayrshire
Councils
All Ayrshire Minor Maintenance Works Framework
North, South and East Ayrshire Councils’ shared service
initiative for the procurement of external works resulted
in the development and implementation of an
innovative electronic web-based procurement and
management system; realising cost savings for the
Councils and ultimately benefiting local communities
and contractors. Reductions in submitted contractors’
rates and benchmarking of the Councils’ performance
through system generated benchmark rates, has
identified savings equating to approximately £870k from
£11.4m of works carried out by both external
contractors and in-house service providers.