Tilley Awards 2009
Entry Guidance (Continued)
7. Who should authorise the final application form?
It is a condition of entry that all final applications are authorised at Section D of the application form by the CDRP/CSP Chair (in England and Wales) or the BCU Commander/equivalent (in other UK Forces outside England and Wales). This is to ensure that all entries are factually correct and to prevent duplicate projects from different partnership agencies being submitted.
Entries that are not endorsed will be returned to the entrant. Statements of endorsement will not count against word or document size limits but if the attachment takes the whole application form over 1MB section D should be sent separately as the Home Office email system will block any emails over the 1MB limit.
Final draft forms should be emailed to the relevant authoriser to complete section D and then return the form to the author. A hard copy signature is not required for the purposes of the form. It is the application author’s responsibility to ensure all sections of the form are completed and then emailed to the Home Office prior to the deadline.
CDRP/CSP Chairs and a senior representative from the application author’s agency will be invited to attend the Gala Dinner to watch the presentation of the national finalist places and the winner of the ‘Violence Against Women’ category during the UK POP Conference (for the regional winners and 'Violence Against Women' award winners only).
Applications at the pre-marking stage do not require authorisation.
8. What can an entry be about?
Projects should describe the work undertaken to reduce specific crime and disorder problems and that reflect the benefits of a joined up multi-agency approach. To comply with the problem-oriented approach they should address repeat problems and/or issues that are of key concern to local communities demonstrating a sustainable and evaluated response. All entries must be able to clearly demonstrate they have followed the problem solving model i.e. scanning, analysis, response and assessment. Please refer to section 3 for more details on problem solving.
The 2008 entries which reached the short list examined issues such as anti-social behaviour, the fear of crime and using multi-agency working to tackle geographical crime hotspots. Over the years short listed entries have addressed a wide range of issues including begging, glass related injuries, criminal damage, ID parades, vehicle crime, the reduction of motor bike casualties, burglary, anti-social behaviour, robbery, domestic violence, young runaways, street drinking, drug and alcohol rehabilitation etc. Many more have drilled down to a specific geographical hot spot location and targeted more than one crime type.
The judging panel welcomes innovative projects which seek to use creative and varied responses.
Topics for ‘Violence Against Women’ Award
Entries for the ‘Violence Against Women’ Tilley Award should take note of the following definition to decide whether the project should be submitted to either the stand alone or national award category; they cannot be submitted to both categories of award.
The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993) defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." This encompasses, inter alia, "physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family and in the general community, including battering, sexual abuse of children, dowry-related violence, rape, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women such as FGM, forced marriage, non-spousal violence and violence related to exploitation, sexual harassment and intimidation at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere, trafficking in women, forced prostitution, and violence perpetrated or condoned by the state."
9. Can previous projects be resubmitted?
Projects that have been entered into previous Tilley competitions but have not won are eligible for re-submission. This may be appropriate where further evaluation has demonstrated the true impact of the project for example or where more work has been carried out than at the time of the earlier submission.
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