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Partnership Award for Sustainable Communities |
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Effective partnerships are essential to the creation of genuinely sustainable communities. To achieve this, councils must work with local partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors and with those who live or work in their area.
Local strategic partnerships, led by councils, are responsible for preparing and reviewing an area’s sustainable community strategy, which should be a bold vision that balances socio-economic and environmental needs. Such partnerships help to co-ordinate the local activities of public, private and community organisations, and are uniquely placed to develop a shared vision for a genuinely sustainable community and to develop effective local solutions.
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Building Sustainable Communities |
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This award will recognise initiatives that show sensitivity in the construction of new communities, both in terms of the fabric of the buildings and how the development as a whole is integrated into the existing community and local environment.
This will be awarded to partnerships which can best demonstrate how they are working to build modern communities in which people want to live and work, now and in the future, while minimising impacts on the local and wider environment.
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Community Cohesion
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Community cohesion is one of the most challenging but vital issues that local partnerships must address if they are to create secure futures for all residents. Tensions that arise from race, religion, age and geography can destabilise communities and create ill-feeling or resentments. But all parts of the community must have their needs addressed, and included in local policies and strategies, to ensure that everyone can lead peaceful and productive lives.
This award aims to recognise projects that may have addressed a specific
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event that threatened local community cohesion, or perhaps responded to concerns that public spending policies unfairly favoured particular groups.
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Community Project
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Community groups - residents’ and tenants’ associations and faith groups - can all make a big difference if they are given the right support and allowed to realise their potential.
This category aims to recognise projects that have engaged local residents in community action to deliver social, economic and environmental goals. This is not for projects that were solely delivered by public sector staff, but for those in which local residents helped to decide the project’s goals and had a crucial influence on its design and delivery. This may have been achieved by working strategically with local voluntary or community sector organisations.
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Community Youth Initiative |
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 Young people have a vital role to play in securing the future of our communities.
Engaging with them today means we can shape the localities of tomorrow.
Projects that tackle issues such as youth representation, access to services and cultural support and activities for young people should enter this award. They should demonstrate how these projects meet the social, economic and environmental needs of the communities they serve and explain how they work to promote social cohesion and inclusion.
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Creating a Lasting Legacy
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 The Olympic Games and Paralympic Games provide great opportunities for the whole country, not just London, to make lasting differences to their communities.
Delivering a lasting legacy is at the core of 2012, and local government should be taking the lead by encouraging young and old to participate in sport and live healthy, active lives and developing inclusive communities.
The award aims to encourage councils and their partners to seize this opportunity, and to spread best practice across the country.
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Healthy Communities
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 Public bodies must work together to promote their community’s health.
Neighbourhoods need clean environments, opportunities for exercise, and easy access to health information.
This means that local partners have to join up their work to tackle the wider social, economic or environmental causes of poor health and bring their different sets of expertise to bear.
There are a huge range of health problems that can be improved through effective partnership working.
These might include the provision of healthier school meals and which promote locally grown fruit and vegetables, one-stop-shops that give both health advice, home energy efficiency advice and childcare to families, better opportunities for physical exercise in the community or nearby open space and action to target particular illnesses prevalent in disadvantaged areas.
All entries for this category should be run by partnerships and be able to demonstrate how they meet local needs in a joined-up way by bringing together social, environmental and economic determinants and disciplines.
They should also show how they have helped to improve social cohesion and inclusion.
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Improving the Local Environment |
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Local partnerships that promote a joined-up approach towards improving the local environment can create cleaner, safer and greener places that benefit people and wildlife alike.
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Regeneration
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Communities become in need of regeneration for many socio-economic and environmental reasons from the loss of industry to dilapidated housing. But once a community starts to see a decline in its physical fabric, economic potential or social cohesion the process can become self-reinforcing with those who have the means to do so choosing to live and invest elsewhere.
Regeneration can revive a community, a local economy, a physical environment and give an area the chance to thrive.
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Safer Communities
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Creating safer, cleaner and greener communities all go hand in hand. This award recognises single projects that have had a direct impact on creating safer, quieter and more pleasant places to live. |
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 The award covers a wide range of activities and could include: tackling anti-social behaviour, reducing alcohol-related crime, public and workplace safety initiatives, reducing noise nuisance.
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Suppliers Delivering Sustainability
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 Suppliers to the health and social care sector at all levels can play an important role in helping their clients to realise their sustainability objectives and aspirations.
As part of the health and social care sustainable procurement action plan, “Procuring for Health and Sustainability 2012”, this award seeks to identify excellence in sustainable supply while also recognising those suppliers to the health and social care sector who are going the extra mile and making a meaningful contribution to social, environmental and community objectives in the sector.
NHS PASA is keen to develop case studies on the successful and short-listed suppliers and promote these through the PS Magazine and on the PASA website to the wider NHS.
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Sustainable Procurement
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 Local authorities alone spend over £40bn per year on goods and services. This spending power and that of local partners, if properly harnessed, can be used to help create genuinely sustainable communities.
Public bodies can choose to procure from ‘green’ suppliers, which demonstrate that their goods or services are produced and provided in ways that do minimum harm to the environment. They can also choose suppliers that commit to using local goods, services or employment, which strengthen the local economy.
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Sustainable Transport |
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Transport is a key part of any community’s infrastructure. Sustainable transport provides the link between residents’ homes, families and work and plays a central role in growing local economies.
The award recognises innovative local transport schemes that recognise social, economic and environmental needs and help improve the fabric of communities.
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Tackling Climate Change |
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The need for local authorities and their local partners to address climate change is increasing in importance and urgency.
This category seeks to reward local leadership on climate change. It is aimed at local partnerships that have started work to reduce their own carbon emissions (CO2 emissions) from their own operations, but also those of their wider district or community. Particular recognition will be given to entries that show how council have used their community leadership role to bring groups and partners together to tackle CO2 emissions.
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Tackling Health Inequalities |
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Millions of pounds have been ploughed into healthcare in recent years, yet inequalities in health persist in both wealthy and poor communities and between different groups of people.
These gaps may be defined by gender, ethnicity, wealth and age. In the case of children, they also significantly affect their life chances and hold back the improvement of their educational attainment.
These gaps must be closed to ensure that no one’s health suffers unnecessarily because of factors that could have been mitigated.
This award recognises the projects that have made a demonstrable difference to reducing health inequalities.
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