East Riding of Yorkshire Council, University Of Hull, Hull City Council, North Lincolnshire Council and North East Lincolnshire Council

This award is open to a single council or where appropriate a partnership of councils, or a council-owned company. Private sector partners can enter on a council’s behalf, with the permission of the council itself. This award will go to the council that can best show how its use of digital technology is significantly improving outcomes for its residents and/or place. It is not primarily for a council that can show it has systematically transformed its approach to technology or has devised as solution for a specific area of its work, but it is for a council that can demonstrate how its digital acumen is transforming its local area, for instance with regards to the effectiveness of key services and how they support residents. Among the attributes you may seek to showcase in your entry are the benefits of data sharing; how your organisation is ensuring it supports people before they fall into crisis; and how ground-breaking collaboration between local partners has had a significant impact on your local population. This award is designed to recognise vision and farsightedness but may also be suitable for councils which have used their existing digital technology approach in a new or innovative way in their pandemic response.

Following on from phases 1 & 2 of Future Work Design and in light of a move towards more agile and hybrid ways of working, East Riding of Yorkshire Council presents the third phase of the programme, which builds on quality evidence gained from those initial phases and aims to develop a digital platform to support managers to have the conversations needed within the framework of the Health and Safety Executive’s stress risk management standards. Through facilitating this process, it will enable positive culture change, one conversation at a time and improve staff/team member wellbeing.