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2009 NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards Celebrate ten years of the NLPG
The 2009 NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards will take place in London on November 26 2009 to recognise the outstanding service delivery, effort, commitment and innovation provided by local authorities, fire and police in the creation, maintenance and utilisation of the National Land & Property Gazetteer (NLPG) and National Street Gazetteer (NSG).
Intelligent Addressing and the Improvement and Development Agency for local government, will jointly present the awards at a one-day conference and exhibition ‘Underpinning Transformational Government’, to be held at the Park Plaza, Victoria, London. This year the Awards are also supported by the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Communities and Local Government following the adoption of the NLPG to improve electoral registers and the use of the NLPG to mobilise the FiReControl project respectively.
The NLPG and NSG, created at source by local government, presents the first, definitive, national lists of addresses and streets. The data provides unique identification of streets and properties across England and Wales and is maintained virtually in real-time by local authorities. The gazetteers are used by local government and their partners in the fire and police and national parks services, to link their information and systems to transform and improve services whilst generating real operational savings.
With the introduction of the Mapping Services Agreement (MSA) in 2005, local government set in place a contractual framework to maintain and share the gazetteers with councils; police forces; fire; national parks; conservation boards; passenger transport services; town, parish and community councils and local government run Local Education Authority (LEA) schools.
The programme is 10 years old this year. It represents the most successful example of a local government shared service delivered nationally. It not only provides vital location data from planning authorities to other councils, but also to the emergency services to support their mobilisation, incident recording and joint working with other public bodies.
Increasingly, police and fire authorities are working closely with local authorities and collaborating in crime and disorder reduction partnerships, property inspections and enhancing property information. These Awards also recognise the importance of this partnership working. Sharing consistent data enables all parties to better organise their service delivery as the same address structure is used for all the transactions, which result in fewer errors, inconsistencies and duplication of effort.
John Hayes, Director at IDeA, said, "The 2009 Exemplar awards and the ‘Underpinning Transformational Government’ Conference mark the 10th birthday of the NLPG, a triumph of private public partnership and an inspiration for the concept of ‘bottom-up’ data creation and sharing. The Awards not only acknowledge the hard work and vision of those creating and working with the NLPG and the NSG but also act as a platform to encourage others to learn by their example, to improve efficiency, deliver better services and bring about closer collaboration across the country".
The award categories are listed below:
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NSG
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Most Innovative Use
Most innovative integration or application to enable location based services
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Most innovative use of Level 3 NSG
Most innovative use street based information to improve efficiency and delivery of council services or services provided by Statutory Undertakers.
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Most Effective Data Sharing Partnership
The best integration of the NLPG/LLPG
by a partner agency, local authority, fire service or police force
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Most creative use of Additional Street Data (ASD)
Most innovative use of ASD by a Statutory Undertaker, highway authority or local authority
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Best business transformation
Best example of using the LLPG for internal business process transformation or re-engineering - including Best e-service delivery
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Most Effective LSG and Streetworks Integration
Will be judged on the most comprehensive and innovative application providing information service delivery direct to the citizen.
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Most Unexpected Benefit
Most unexpected benefit gained through use or integration of the NLPG.
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Most Unexpected Benefit
Most unexpected benefit gained through use or integration of the NSG.
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Best integration of the NLPG By a Fire & Rescue Service
Will be awarded to the Fire and Rescue Service which has demonstrated the most effective and innovative integration and use of the NLPG in it's business systems.
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Most Improved
Will be judged by the NSG Custodian on the performance of the highways authority.
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Best Implementation of the Electoral Registration Data Standard
Will be awarded to the local authority most successful in meeting the electoral registration data standard.
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Best Performing Region
Will be awarded by the NSG team based on a combination of analysis of data quality, consistency, update frequency and collective working across the government region.
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Best integrated use of the NLPG and NSG
Best example of linking the NLPG and NSG between applications and directorates or
best example of business processes used to coordinate NLPG and NSG update protocols
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Best Partnership Between Organisations
The best example evidencing excellent partnership work, demonstrating good mutual support in order to improve the development and use of the LLPG/NLPG or LSG/NSG within the partnership area.
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Most Interesting Anecdote
Most amusing anecdote for data collection or verification or most amusing address or street name.
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NLPG NSG Best In Region
An award will be given to a local authority in each region. These will be nominated by each of the Regional Chairs and Deputies and based on data quality, promotional work of the gazetteers by the local authority and use of data.
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