Sustainability Reporting in the Public Sector

The period reviewed will be 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009, and we will review the annual report and supporting corporate reporting, such as presentations on the organisation's website and corporate responsibility reports.

This award aims to assess the depth and relevance of sustainability reporting offered throughout the publicly available information provided to stakeholders. The particular focus of the award will be on those public sector organisations that provide:

• A consideration of sustainable development issues being factored into core business strategy/priorities.
• Evidence of an understanding of the impacts of sustainable development issues for the organisation.
• Evidence of appropriate governance policies, targets and objectives relating to sustainable development performance.
• Identification and explanation of relevant sustainable development key performance indicators.
• Evidence of appropriate performance monitoring and reporting on the organisation's priority sustainable development issues.