Durham CC

Improving the care of the children we look after, Durham County Council has transformed its Corporate Parenting Panel to harness the power of elected Members and our Children in Care Council in understanding the needs of young people and driving service improvements. Our child-centred approach has strengthened political oversight and management of the service and led to significant improvements and innovation in the consistency and continuity of care for our children and care leavers, better transition arrangements and improved educational and employability outcomes.

’We are very pleased to be sponsoring the Children’s services, Public Health & Health and Social Care award categories at this year’s LGC Awards. It has certainly been a very challenging year for a number of reasons, not least a global pandemic, so we are looking forward to celebrating the outstanding achievements across local government this afternoon. Attenti consulting is a specialist consultancy delivering bespoke, sustainable solutions to a range of health and social care clients; with a passion to promote best practice across the sector through the facilitation of webinars, commissioning research & white papers and hosting events to encourage shared learning and sector-led improvement. Do visit our website to see how we have supported clients with various challenges www.attenti-consulting.co.uk Attenti partners with Local Authorities, NHS Trusts, and CCGs to consult on and deliver improvements across health and social care. For over 20 years, against a backdrop of funding cuts and service rationing, we’ve kept people at the heart of every process; from sourcing specialist interims to provide relief to a service, to delivering large scale assessment teams, we build our support around your needs, and the needs of your service users.

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. Children’s Services are very much a service under pressure. There is an imperative to protect vulnerable children, the importance of early intervention and the changing relationship with schools – all under an intense media spotlight. This award is intended to recognise the success of those councils that adopt a genuinely strategic approach to this vital service area.