Awards 2010

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Best Public Sector Innovation
Winner: Kent County Council The Kent County Council Community Safety Unit is responsible for Community Wardens who are a uniformed presence on the streets. The unit promotes community cohesion and deals with low level crime, anti-social behaviour and quality of life issues. Its work with young people has seen amazing results in difficult social areas. It was successful in a ‘Jobs for the Future Bid' and took on 30 young people from deprived areas who have been out of work for a year or more.
Highly Commended: Kent County Council Greenhouse is a staff group representing younger employees within KCC. It holds regular meetings and hs an online community website, enabling staff to discuss issues and share useful information. Other initiatives offered to younger staff are - a buddy scheme, so they can learn from other younger members of staff and a Time Off for Study or Training scheme to help staff achieve Level 2 Qualifications.
Best Private Sector Innovation
Winner: London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Ltd LOCOG's ‘>attitude over age' programme was launched in March 2009 with a clearly defined vision to increase the proportion of older and younger people. To achieve set targets it has four main work streams: a Get Ahead School Leaver Programme, Work Placements, Trailblazers Programme - a volunteering programme - and a Buddy System designed to encourage older and younger members of staff to interact.
Best Public Sector Overall approach
Winner: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) BIS shows a commitment to lifelong learning in its apprenticeship scheme, fast stream leadership and management courses. The apprenticeship scheme is open to all staff across the UK, providing they don't have a degree. The fast stream programme, open to all ages, offers an accelerated training and development programme for people who have the potential to become the future leaders of the Civil Service.
Best Private Sector Overall approach
Winner: Centrica Centrica's diversity strategy continues to build. Its Age Action Group continually reviews practices to ensure it is ‘age friendly'. It is also committed to being as flexible as it can be especially when it comes to carers and when it comes to health and wellbeing of staff, Centrica has a WorkingWell programme to encourage self-management and has implemented an engineer's wellbeing programme.
EFA & EFB Small Organisation Award
Winner: Core Assets Group Core Assets Group has a commitment to lifelong learning that reaches beyond its staff group - it has professionally supported the 3,999 foster carers it works with, 52% of whom are between the ages of 46-60 and 10% over 61. Support is also offered to the children and young people that are in care by giving them the opportunity of a work placement. "360 Diversity" was launched in 2009 which is an online virtual networking forum that contains information to support and educate staff on diversity. The forum improves communication and provides social learning opportunities.

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