Quality Awards 2010

The winners of the Homes for Scotland Quality Awards 2010 were announced at our Annual Lunch on Friday 21 May.  Click here to find out who stood out to the judges this year and here to read their full report.

The theme of this year's Awards, now in their eighth year, encompassed a range of issues high both on our own strategic agenda and those of our stakeholders. 

As well as demonstrating the further evolution of our commitment to industry improvement across the board, this sent a powerful message that we are determined to embrace the many challenges which lie ahead in overcoming the difficulties of the past two years.

Providing some important learning opportunities which will be extremely useful going forward, the award categories comprised:

Skills & Training sponsored by	Customer Care sponsored by	Health & Safety sponsored by
Community Engagement sponsored by	Environment & Sustainability sponsored by	Affordable Housing sponsored by
Key Agency Working sponsored by
Judges' Special Award sponsored by

Over 50 entries were received and assessed by an independent judging panel (details below) comprising:

Brian Frater (Chair) - Head of Planning and Building Standards, Scottish Borders Council and Chair of Heads of Planning Scotland

Jane Clark - Head of Sustainable Land Use, Scottish Natural Heritage and Chair of Joint Agencies Group

Andrew Field - Deputy Chief Executive, Scottish Federation of Housing Assocations

Phil Ford - Skills Strategy Manager, Construction Skills

Trisha McAuley - Head of Services & Advocacy, Consumer Focus Scotland

Isabelle Martin - Inspector, Health & Safety Executive

Hayley Millar - BBC Scotland business correspondent

Guest judge for Environment & Sustainability:

Lynne Sullivan - Sustainable BY Design, Chair of Panel for 'Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland'