CelebratingPublic Sector Excellence

Foreword

It is testament to the whole of the sector that in spite of such severe financial constraints, public bodies across the UK continue to not just deliver, but excel in developing new ways of working and transforming service delivery that reach out to their communities and ensure residents are supported.

Being able to say well done to those working tirelessly behind the scenes to keep much relied upon services going is extremely important, as is the keen sharing of groundbreaking knowledge. The iESE Improvement and Efficiency Awards give those at the cutting edge of change the chance to join together, showcase radical thinking and learn from each other to ensure the sector is as robust as possible and fit for the future.

To celebrate the achievements and truly groundbreaking transformation of local public services over the past year, iESE’s fifth annual Awards Ceremony took place on 4 March 2014 in London. I’d like to this opportunity to thank our principal sponsors, Vodafone as well and our commercial sponsors, Scape and Bevan Brittan as without them, we wouldn’t be able to showcase such fantastic work.

Not for profit and set up by a network of councils, iESE is continually searching for radically new and better value ways of working. Now at the forefront of sector-led improvement, we are helping the sector to deliver improved services at lower cost and implement new income generating solutions. Acting as a gateway to ensuring every council can learn from each other’s innovations and leadership transformation, we’ve so far helped save local government over £265 million, working with many different services and departments to deliver merged councils and shared services, radical new models of working, turn around performance, build partnerships and learn new skills. Any surplus made by us is reinvested back into supporting the sector’s improvement.

Our fifth Annual Awards were a huge success with a record breaking 192 nominations. We are delighted to announce this year’s winners and offer our congratulations to you all.

Cllr Paul Bettison, Leader, Bracknell Forest Council & Chairman, iESE

Awards and Winners1. Connecting PeopleThe Connecting People Award is for the organisation, department or project deemed to have done most in transforming the way local people access services

WINNER: Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead - Business Development Team

To improve uptake and service of school meals, a “Cashless Payments” project was initiated by RBWM, significantly enhancing how parents and borough schools connect, communicate and manage pupil payments. Considerable benefits have been to those schools with a higher volume of lower income families, helping reduce any school meal debts.

2. Transformation In Waste & EnvironmentThe Transformation in Waste & Environment award is for the project, department or partnership showing the most progress in developing waste management and environmental services.

WINNER: Mid Kent Waste Partnership - Joint Waste Contract

Ashford, Maidstone and Swale Borough Council’s joined in partnership with Kent County Council and Biffa Municipal Limited to deliver significant service improvements whilst achieving substantial savings. The partnership has already achieved recycling rates of 50% plus savings in the region of £1.7 million per year.

3. Transforming Local Services The Transforming Local Services award is for the organisation or department with a project deemed most innovative in transforming the way services are delivered.

WINNER: Aylesbury Vale District Council - Householder Local Development Order As a homeowner have you ever had to apply for Planning Permission ? It’s a pain, long winded and stands in the way. Aylesbury Vale District Council have introduced an innovative way of freeing this system up, getting the process down from 8 weeks to 2 & giving a guaranteed ‘yes’.

WINNER: Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

PRESENTED BY: Cllr Paul Yallop

WINNER: Mid Kent Waste Partnership

PRESENTED BY: Cllr David Burbage

WINNER: Aylesbury Vale District Council

PRESENTED BY: Cllr Neil Parkin

The Transformation in Health & Social Care award is open to public sector organisations or their voluntary sector partners and presented for the project, department or partnership showing the most progress in developing care markets and services in the last year.

WINNER: Royal Borough of Greenwich - Co-ordinated Care Integrated health and care teams now offer a single point of access, with care co-ordinated around GP practices. Driven by staff engagement, shared resources, and a strong client and prevention focus, we have saved £900k from care budgets, reduced long term care packages and cut delayed hospital discharges by 13%.

5. Community MattersDelivering clear improvements in the community whilst demonstrating a cost reduction to the whole of local public service. This award is not for service delivery but in positively influencing issues that are effecting the community, in particular where the action taken fall outside the normal statutory remit.

WINNER: Sandhurst Town Council

Sandhurst Town Council have worked in partnerships through the linked campaigns of ‘Sandhurst Pride’ and ‘Respect, Responsibility and Rights’ to change attitudes across the town. An independent evaluation of the impact has shown many indications of success, including a reduction of anti-social behaviour and a decrease in police resources required.

6. Working TogetherThe Working Together category recognises the organisation, department or project that has instigated the most impressive programme of shared working with other organisations, local authorities, local businesses or national organisations.

WINNER: Oxford City Council

Oxford City Council’s Welfare Reform Team have worked innovatively with local partners to help people affected by benefit changes into work. The Council have created a network of provision, and have triaged customers to ensure the right partner (or combination of partners) are used to provide the specialist support required.

WINNER: Royal Borough of Greenwich

PRESENTED BY: Cllr Paul Barrington-King

WINNER: Sandhurst Town Council

PRESENTED BY: Cllr David Tutt

WINNER: Oxford City Council

PRESENTED BY: Cllr Tony Page

4. Transformation In Health & Social Care

7. Police Project Of The YearThis award recognises the Police Service or member of staff deemed to have delivered an innovative project in transforming Police Services.

WINNER: Essex & Kent Police Support Services Directorate

A major shared services programme to enable collaboration and convergence of support office functions of Essex Police and Kent Police. Providing improved service quality through cost-effective and resilient shared service provision and financial savings from HR, Business Services, Transport, Procurement, Estate and Finance.

8. Fire & Rescue Project Of The YearThe Fire & Rescue Project of the Year is for the Fire Service or member of staff deemed to have delivered the most innovative project in transforming fire services.

WINNER: Surrey County Council, Surrey Fire & Rescue Service and Adult Social Care - ‘Keeping You Safe from Fire’ training package

The multi agency training package was developed by Surrey Fire and Rescue Service and Adult Social Care service in March 2013 to deliver free community fire safety training for care providers in Surrey, to protect vulnerable adults from fire and promote public fire safety messages to residents most at risk.

9. The Entrepreneur AwardFor the organisation developing and/or bringing to market new innovative technologies and/or services that can transform the delivery of a local public service.

WINNER: TrustID

TrustID is a British owned and operated company, trusted by some of the country’s most high-profile organisations to provide identity document authentication solutions. We help our clients prevent fraud and save money.

10. Delivering Through EfficiencySponsored By Scape

The Delivering through Efficiency award is for the organisation, authority, department or project that has instigated the most impressive programme of shared working with other organisations, local authorities, local businesses or national organisations.

WINNER: Cheshire East Council - Best Fit Approach to Strategic Commissioning

Cheshire East Council has implemented an innovative ‘Best Fit’ Strategic Commissioning approach to service delivery, entirely focussed on delivering positive outcomes for residents; improving service delivery in several key areas, while delivering excellent value for money, with a fourth year of Council tax freeze, despite dwindled central government funding.

WINNER: Essex & Kent Police Support Services Directorate

PRESENTED BY: Alison Templeton

WINNER: Surrey County Council, Surrey Fire & Rescue Service and Adult Social Care

PRESENTED BY: Heather Lumby

WINNER: TrustID

PRESENTED BY: Cllr Paul Bettison

WINNER: Cheshire East Council

PRESENTED BY: Steve Elkin, Chief Operational Officer, Scape

11. Council Of The Year 2014 Sponsored By Vodafone

This award recognises the Council deemed outstanding in terms of improving its performance and/or increased efficiency over the previous year.

WINNER: Norwich City Council

It has been a year of remarkable achievements for the council and one which reflects our improvement and transformation journey from an under performing council to an efficient, high performing, creative and collaborative council which always delivers on its promises for the City, its residents and its partners.

11. Chairman’s AwardThis award is presented to an individual marked out as making an outstanding contribution to local governemnt within the realm of improvement and efficiency.

WINNER: The Baroness Eaton and The Baroness Hanham

iESE celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. From the firm foundation as a partnership of public bodies to its current state as a mutual owned by public bodies, for everyone involved, officers and councillors we are all really proud of the iESE story so far. In recognition of their significant championing of both the sector and us, iESE had the pleasure of honoring both Baroness Hanham and Baroness Eaton.

As Chairman of the LGA the Baronness Eaton, Margeret, helped to establish a programme of mutual support and help in each of the regions of England. This was a part of the big move towards and mature and strong sector taking responsibility for its own transformation. It was this programme that started the journey for those of us who founded iESE.

Baronness Hanham has been a very important supporter for us, not just in helping spread the word about the results achieved by the public bodies working through iESE, but also encouraging us to go on and to do more, in particular in forming a mutual and seeking to create a long term sustainable model for iESE’s work.

WINNER: Norwich City Council

PRESENTED BY: Richard Aspinall, Head of Regional Public Sector, Vodafone

WINNER: The Baroness Eaton and The Baroness Hanham

PRESENTED BY: Cllr Paul Bettison

Andrew Grant, Compere Bob Neil MPRichard Aspinall & Douglas Grierson, Vodfone

Silver Award Winners

Connecting PeopleEast London Solutions and The Language Shop (LB Newham) - Shared Services Translation and Interpreting Partnership

Transformation In Health & Social CareRoyal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead - CareBank

Transformation In Waste & EnvironmentNorwich City Council - ‘Raspberry Pi’

Working TogetherCheshire West and Chester Council - Integrated Early Support

Delivering Through EfficiencyAylesbury Vale District Council - New Business Model

Council Of The Year 2014Buckinghamshire County Council

Transforming Local ServicesDorset Waste Partnership – councils working together

Community MattersHinckley & Bosworth Endeavour Community Protection Team

Bronze Award Winners

Working TogetherBuckinghamshire County Council - Armed Forces Community Covenant

Transformation In Health & Social CareTrafford Council

Council Of The Year 2013Oxford City Council

Delivering Through EfficiencyOxford City Council - Oxford Direct Services

Transformation In Waste & EnvironmentOxford City Council - ‘A Moving Out’ campaign

Connecting PeopleLondon Borough of Islington - The Seasonal Health Interventions Network (SHINE)

Transforming Local ServicesCheshire East Council – Connecting Cheshire

Community MattersCity of Bradford Metropolitan District Council - Youth Contract Young Futures Project

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A Snapshot of the Evening…

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We’re now the only UK business to own a global fixed and mobile network – and we’re investing more than £1 billion in it this year alone.

Our integrated network delivers secure, dependable and innovative services that can ensure you get the best from your employees, give your citizens better service and respond quickly to changing market conditions.

The Improvement & Efficiency Awards have also been sponsored by our Silver Sponsors

Scape System Build Ltd. is a Local Authority controlled company, offering innovative solutions for maintaining and developing public sector built assets.

Scape seeks to deliver economy and efficiency to the whole building process, facilitated by best practice methodologies including standardised designs, consultancy services and Procurement routes via a range of OJEU tendered framework agreements.

As well as our Bronze sponsors

Bevan Brittan is the Public Services law firm. The firm is dedicated to providing commercial legal ad-vice to clients in the Public, Private and Third Sectors which commission, provide, procure, fund and regulate public services.

We are ranked first in legal directories for Local Government and in 2013/14 continue to advise over 370 Local Authorities in England & Wales.

Charity prize draw 2014 Our chosen charity for 2014 is Macmillan Cancer Support The sponsors for our prize draw which raised £1570 were

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