Shortlist for Beacon Councils Status Round 9
The shortlisted authorities are:
- Tackling Climate Change – Eastleigh Borough Council
- Tackling Climate Change – Woking Borough Council
- Transforming Services: Citizen Engagement and Empowerment
Successful Round 9 Beacons authorities will be announced in March 2008.
Beacon Council Scheme Round 10
The Beacon Scheme, now entering its tenth successful year is looking to the biggest and brightest round of all. Ministers have announced 12 themes that will be officially launched for application in early March 2008.
The round 10 themes are:
- After dark: managing the night time economy
- Digital inclusion: tackling exclusion and promoting life chances
- Cohesive and resilient communities
- Homes for the future
- Cutting red tape: delivering real economic and social benefit through better local regulation
- Olympic games and Paralympics Games Legacy: using the opportunity of hosting the Games to encourage communities to be more active
- Positive engagement of older people to support and promote greater independence and wellbeing in later life
- Preventing and tackling child poverty
- Strategic commissioning
- Supporting independent living for disables adults
- Raising economic prosperity through partnership
- Better outcomes for people and places
