Chairman's Announcements
To receive such announcements as the Chairman may wish to make to the Council.
Minutes:
The Chairman announced a number of awards received by the County Council as follows:
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All five of
the County Council’s country parks has been awarded a Green
Flag for 2021 recognising good management of Parks and Green
Spaces. Lepe, Staunton, River Hamble,
Royal Victoria, and Queen Elizabeth Country Parks all
gained Green Flag status with Staunton and Royal Victoria Parks
achieving Green Heritage Accreditation for the management of these
sites’ unique historic features.
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Stoneham
Park Primary Academy in Eastleigh won a regional Local Authority
Building Control (LABC) Excellence Award and has been shortlisted
as a finalist for the national People and Place Awards
2021. The building was designed as a
sustainable pilot project with 50% less carbon used in construction
compared to a standard steel and concrete structure.
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Bill
Dyet, Registered Manager, Laura Carter,
Deputy Unit Manager and Natalie Oldfield, Senior Residential Care
Worker at Malmesbury Lawn Care Home
have successfully completed the Gold Standard Framework Care Homes
Reaccreditation Assessment and have been awarded the Quality
Hallmark Award at Platinum status, which recognises the sustained
practice to maintain Gold Standard Framework in a care home
setting.
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The
Children’s Services Willow Team has
been recognised as an ‘Outstanding Contribution Winner’
in this year’s National Anti-Slavery Day Awards in the
‘Statutory Services’ category. The Willow Team works with children and young
people who are at risk of criminal and sexual exploitation.
The team work closely with the Police
and health partners to reduce risk in respect of child exploitation
in all its forms.
- Hampshire County Council’s Highways team has won the International Green Apple Environment Award for the new Highway Materials Recycling Facility at Micheldever which became operational earlier this year. Highways officers worked collaboratively with Milestone Infrastructure and OCL to develop the new facility which processes large quantities of excavated road material for re-use across the Hampshire network resulting in significant carbon savings and reduced reliance on freshly quarried aggregate products.
The Chairman reported on a number of events that he had represented the County Council at: