Hays is proud to have extended its partnership with the Guardian in presenting the Public Services Awards 2009 for the fifth year running. By honouring outstanding work, the awards aim to encourage and disseminate improvement, innovation and effective progress in our public services.
As the leading public services recruitment consultancy, Hays supplies temporary, permanent and managed service solutions across central and local government, the NHS, charities, social housing and the education sector. The awards are the leading celebration of excellence among organisations commissioning or providing services, whether they themselves sit in the public, private or voluntary sector. The various categories of the awards offer opportunities for most organisations to enter.
The Guardian have sought to identify core roles that unite all organisations who deliver public services: people management, a new category; sustainability, transformation; customer service; partnership working; diversity and equality. Judging will be based less of what has been achieved but rather by evidence of progress within the organisation.
As well as significantly raising the profile of their work and achievements among their colleagues and peers, the winning teams and organisations will be featured in a special awards supplement to appear in the Guardian. The winning organisations will also be able to use the awards logo on their own promotional material.
The winners of the awards will be announced on November 24 2009 at a prestigious awards ceremony in central London.
'Hays is the UK's leading recruitment consultancy to the public sector and we are delighted to be involved in the Guardian Public Services Awards for another year. The awards are a testament to the excellent work going on within public sector organisations.'
Tim Cook, Managing Director of UK & Ireland
For more information and to enter, please visit www.societyguardian.co.uk/publicservicesawards