iESE Award Finalists 2022

This year we received 261 award nominations from 81 different public sector organisations from the UK and overseas. It’s been the highest amount of nominations that we have seen to date, making it one of the most competitive years ever. Here’s a sneak preview of the iESE Awards Finalists 2022!

Asset Management and Regeneration Award

Local communities rely on a wide range of assets whether publicly owned or not. This award is for asset management and regeneration that delivers proven benefits to local public services and their communities.

• GOLD: South Staffordshire District Council – Codsall Community Hub
• SILVER: Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service – Winsford Training Centre
• BRONZE: Norfolk County Council – Norfolk & Suffolk IoT Network

Best Transformation Team

This award recognises a team who has made an exceptional contribution and long-term positive impact in their organisation through a series of transformation and continuous improvement. They continuously look for new ways to innovate and push the boundaries of local public service deployment.

• GOLD: South Hams District Council & West Devon Borough Council – Transformation with a Big Picture Focus
• SILVER: Clackmannanshire Council – Safeguarding Through Rapid Intervention (STRIVE)
• BRONZE: Tewkesbury Borough Council – Business Transformation Team

Communications Award

No matter the budget, topic or channel, this award is for public service communications that are imaginative, engaging and have above all made a real impact. It encompasses advertising campaigns, websites, social media and publications.

• GOLD: Milton Keynes Council – Communications Team
• SILVER: Kent County Council – Adult Social Care & Health Directorate
• BRONZE: Portsmouth City Council & Karakusevic Carson Architects – Horatia & Leamington Houses Community Programme

Community Focus Award

This award is for the initiative that does most to reinvigorate the local community.  This might be for a major programme of regeneration that creates economic opportunity for the local area or initiatives that engage the local community, creating greater resilience, better life chances and less dependency on public services.

• GOLD: Bolton Council – Team Bolton
• SILVER: Sussex Police – The Multi Agency Delivery Team
• BRONZE: Sevenoaks District Council – Care For Our Community

Customer Focus Award

This award is for the organisation that delivers outstanding service to their customers. It recognises those that demonstrate the link between excellent customer service and improved service performance.

• GOLD: Cumbria County Council – Digital Team
• SILVER: Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council – Service Design Team
• BRONZE: Kent Fire & Rescue Service – Kent Together

Best Use of Data Insight

This award is for the use of data insight and the application of data, rewarding creative approaches to managing and manipulating data to deliver outstanding results.

• GOLD: Surrey County Council – Data Insight
• SILVER: East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service – Children’s Services & Education Team
• BRONZE: London Borough of Barnet – Insight & Intelligence Hub

Best Use of Digital and Technology

This award is for the innovative use of digital tools and technology, from remodelling existing services, to creating totally new and dynamic services that lead to improved outcomes.

• GOLD: Cheshire East Council & Cheshire CCG – MyCareView
• SILVER: Worcestershire County Council – Nimrod
• BRONZE: Sussex Police – Local Resolution Team

Award for Efficiency and Effectiveness

This organisation has harnessed the real potential in their organisation, delivering elevated performance, creating efficiencies, and delivering outstanding customer service with improved value to their residents. Above all, this organisation has shown its ability to adapt a virus-fuelled environment and achieve fantastic results in doing so.

• GOLD: 3C Shared Services – 3C Building Control
• SILVER: NHS Property Services – Open Space
• BRONZE: The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust & NDL Software – Robotic Process Automation

Green Public Service Award

This category recognises, rewards and promotes environmental best practice across the public sector in the UK. This organisation has shown how they have helped the environment and improved sustainability not only in their organisation, but their surrounding community.

• GOLD: Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council – Merthyr Tydfil Bus Interchange
• SILVER: South Cambridgeshire District Council – Green To Our Core
• BRONZE: Cheshire West and Chester Council – Climate Emergency Response Plan

Award for Innovation

This category is not only open to the public sector but also private or third sector organisations. This category is for developing and/or bringing to market new innovative technologies or facilities that can transform the delivery of a local public service.

• GOLD: Cash Perks – Cash Payment Scheme
• SILVER: Radius Connect 24 – Yokeru AI Phone Calls
• BRONZE: West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust & NDL Software – Clinical Photography App

Transformation in Health & Social Care Award

Submissions can be based upon transforming access to services, remodelling the service, working in partnership or a combination of all three.  The winning applications will have demonstrated the greatest impact for customers of health and social care.

• SILVER: Hywel Dda University Health Board – Intermediate Care MDT
• GOLD: Liverpool City Council – Axess
• BRONZE: Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust – Learning from Deaths

Working Together Award

This category is for simplifying the way that residents and local businesses deal with public services, bringing together multiple contact points, removing the barriers between organisations, and moving resources closer to the customer.

• GOLD: South Staffordshire District Council – Locality Model
• SILVER: East Ayrshire Council – East Ayrshire Digital Access Network
• BRONZE: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council – Access To Food Partnership

UK Fire and Rescue Service of the Year 2022 – County Durham and Darlington Fire & Rescue Service

UK Police Service of the Year 2022 – Humberside Police

UK Council of the Year 2022 – South Staffordshire District Council

International Public Body of the Year 2022 – State Social Protection Fund of Azerbaijan

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