Like all Councils, Winchester faces the three-fold challenge of keeping spending down, improving service to customers and retaining a committed, motivated workforce.
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In 2007, the health of people living in the borough of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk was rated in the bottom 40% of all UK local authorities.
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Humberside Young Witness Service (HYWS) provides support to all young witnesses and victims called to give evidence in courts within the region.
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Islington’s comprehensive approach to tackling energy efficiency has resulted in a truly impressive reduction in carbon emissions, and has ensured that sustainable practices have become an integral part of this local authority’s ethos and culture.
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In 2000, the Belgian National Railway Company abandoned a large site in the north of Antwerp which, over the past nine years, has been developed by the local authority into a new 17 hectare urban landscape park.
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The SMPBR project and its accompanying charter depicts the City of Rennes’s commitment to tacking environmental sustainability.
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The Children’s Campus project has brought about better social opportunities and a safer environment for primary school children.
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Nearly 5000 school children have benefited from the Saving Gestures project, which has set about promoting respect and citizenship in young people through a first aid training scheme.
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The Force South project has sought to empower young people and encourage their involvement in sport through an innovative approach to resource provision.
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Until recently, the City of Rennes faced a workforce of cleaning staff that, owing to insufficient working conditions, had a high rate of absenteeism and significant outflows.
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Since 2000, Getafe local authority has undergone a comprehensive city-wide development programme, which has been made possible through a ground-breaking approach to strategic planning.
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Through safeguarding cultural heritage and renovating areas of significant historical importance, the Murnieku Street project has ensured the successful regeneration of an urban area whilst simultaneously strengthening its appeal to tourists.
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This bold, complex project has sought to secure significant, long term benefits to the welfare of citizens by reorganising the collection of wastewater in urban areas.
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Malpils in Europe, Europe in Malpils is the far reaching project aimed at tackling a multitude of problems faced by this Latvian authority.
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In a bid to improve public safety and strengthen the market position of the area’s retail centre, the city of Rijswijk has ensured that their main shopping mall has been one of the first in the country to be awarded a national security label.
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The City of Rotterdam has set about re-engaging with disaffected young people through a social and cultural development project for twelve to eighteen year olds.
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Like many local authorities across Europe, the City of Trofa identified the potential benefits of centralising the area’s social services and care provision.
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