The COSLA Excellence Awards celebrate the very best in Scottish local government. Our emphasis is on rewarding the most innovative and passionate developments, and on recognising projects that demonstrate excellent service delivery to communities.

Across the country, in rural and urban communities, visionary approaches are being applied to local issues and these are the kinds of projects the COSLA Excellence Awards will celebrate. We want to use the Excellence Awards to find those who are setting new standards for excellence and to help spread their good practice.

Public services have had real success in addressing Scotland’s most significant problems, providing high quality education, health and social care, justice, employment and protecting the environment. However, more needs to be done to ensure that high quality public services fully translate into better outcomes for everyone in Scotland. That need is all the more acute at a time when resources are reducing and demand is growing quickly. In these difficult circumstances, we must do all that we can to encourage and share excellence.

The COSLA Excellence Awards provide a unique opportunity to highlight the work going on in your community by celebrating projects which are dynamic and innovative; which help improve collaboration and improve outcomes; have the potential to be rolled out across the country and beyond, and make a real and meaningful difference to people’s quality of life and the communities we live in.

If you have a project that has made a difference, we want to hear about it.