Renfrewshire Council’s five Local Area Committees (LACs) were introduced to bring decision making closer to its communities and to allow its citizens to play an active role in setting local priorities, and scrutinising and developing local services and resources.

The NL Connection Project utilises BIG Lottery Funding to deliver an innovative partnership of volunteering, participatory arts and community connecting activity – to achieve social change and build community capacity.

Community and Citizen Well Being in Perth and Kinross.

The multi-disciplinary North Perth Community School Team has worked with schools and communities in North Perth (within the 15% most income deprived areas (SIMD)) to produce innovative family support and family learning opportunities over the last 10 years.

Glasgow City Council and Cordia scoop Service Innovation and Improvement Award.

In order to improve the efficiency of Cordia and its level of service to local citizens, the IT team developed a Blackberry Smartphone application for the Care Tracker system named “E-Router”. This application gives home care coordinators secure and direct access to customer records on their BlackBerry smartphones and informs them in real-time of any customer changes.

This category provides an opportunity to highlight creatives approach to developing Community Planning in local areas. Single Outcome Agreements now encompass all Community Planning Partnerships , creating opportunities for a forward-looking approach to joined-up service delivery in your area, and expressing these as outcomes to be delivered by partners, either individually or jointly.

Applications for this category reflect the key role that councils have in tackling health inequalities and improving health and wellbeing. Whilst improving the health of the general population is important, these projects are also about targeting interventions to decrease health inequalities. Applications may reflect work taking place in specific subject areas, or in terms of policy development.

Read about applications that have made clear and recognised improvements to the “human element” of service delivery by enhancing and enriching the lives of residents or other service users. These include examples of community engagement, effective partnership working and innovation. These projects demonstrate how the initiative is successful at providing outcomes within communities that make them better places in which to live and work.