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CoSLA Excellence Awards
08/06/2004
Councils across Scotland have won Excellence Awards - a
scheme that recognises outstanding quality of service to
the public.
Deputy Public Services Minister Tavish Scott
congratulated the winners and shortlisted finalists at a
ceremony last night.
For the third year, the Executive sponsored the
"Delivering Excellence" award, which was won by North, East
and South Ayrshire Councils for the Fit Ayrshire Babies
project.
Fit Ayrshire Babies is a collaborative project which
enables children, parents and carers to have increased
opportunities to engage in and be aware of the benefits and
importance of physical play, physical exercise and social
interaction within a culture of enthusiasm, enjoyment and
fun.
This is achieved by using and adding to the principles
of the
play@home exercise programme
used successfully in Fife and adapted from Kiwi Babies in
New Zealand.
Mr Scott said:
"These projects are good examples of joined-up working.
That is an approach which puts the citizen first. I would
like to encourage local government to continue to work in
partnership with local people to deliver more responsive
public services.
"We need to learn from each other. We must take the
good practice stories from your projects and share them
with all 32 local authorities, and across the wider public
sector in Scotland.
"As you know, the Scottish Executive is working in
partnership with COSLA and SOLACE to develop the
Improvement Service. This is a very exciting and
challenging new service and I very much look forward to all
local authorities playing an active role with the
Improvement Service. I include both elected members and
officers in this challenge.
"This is the third year that the Executive has sponsored
the "Delivering Excellence" award and the Fit Ayrshire
Babies project is another perfect example of the kind of
project this award was intended to acknowledge. It shows
how local authorities can work together to the benefit of
the people of their local communities."
The other award winners were:
- Service Improvement and Customer Needs: Stirling
Council - Stirling Community Schools
- Quality of Life: South Lanarkshire Council -
A71/A72 Garrion Bridge Improvement
- Health Improvement: West Lothian Council -
Strathbrock Partnership
- Lifelong Learning: West Lothian Council - Homecare
Personal Development Awards
- Innovative Use of Technology: West Lothian -
Picasso
- Best Team Award: Glasgow City Council - Glasgow
Translation and Interpreting Service
- Chair's Award: Scottish Borders Council - The
Computer Bus