Public Servants of the Year Awards 2004

Happy New Year and welcome to the third e-newsletter for the Public Servants of the Year awards 2004. This monthly bulletin provides you with updates on what is happening with the awards from promotion to judging the entries and the ceremony in May 2004.

These prestigious awards, run by Public Finance magazine in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), the Cabinet Office and the Office of Government Commerce, seek to recognise and reward excellence and outstanding achievement displayed by individuals and teams from Britain's 4 million public sector workers.

IN AND COUNTING

First of all a BIG thank you if you sent in your nomination for this year’s Public Servants of the Year awards. The office was swamped with award nominations on the 7 December 2003 deadline, proving that not even a postal strike - which plagued most of London in mid-November - would disrupt entries getting in!

The entries are now in their first stage of the evaluation process and are with our team of scrutineers who are busy assessing and marking them against a consistent marking scheme. Every entry is seen by two scrutineers and the marks awarded are then moderated by Brian Smith, the Project Advisor and a former President of Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy. This process produces the long-list of entries, which are then marked by the panel of judges in February. Finalists for the seven individual and six team awards are announced in March and all finalists receive an invitation to the awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 10 May.

A DAME AMONG THE JUDGES

A former chair of the awards judging panel, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, was created a dame commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year’s honours list. Dame Julia, also a member of the Committee of Standards in Public Life, is a leading figure in health service thinking. She joined the King’s Fund Institute in 1989, becoming the campaigning charity’s chief executive in 1998. The other prestigious members of the judging panel are:

• Prof. Sir Michael Lyons
  Chair, INLOGOV, Birmingham University (Chair)
• Dame Rennie Fritchie
  Commissioner, Office of the Commission for Public Appointments
• Dr Norman Perry
  Chief Executive, the Housing Corporation
• Michael Peters
  Consultant Director of Educational Services, The Tribal Group
• Roger Singleton
  Chief Executive, Barnardo’s
• Victor Smart
  Head of Media, Audit Commission
• Sir John Stevens
  Commissioner, Metropolitan Police
• Dr Wendy Thomson
  Prime Minister’s Adviser on Public Services Reform, OPSR

INTERESTED IN SPONSORING AN AWARD?

We’d like to say another BIG thank you to our awards sponsors. Each are companies with close links to the public sector and all are pleased to publicly demonstrate their support by giving recognition to those among our public servants who have delivered exceptional service.

Three category awards are still available for sponsorship. To learn more about becoming a sponsor and the generous benefits package, call Peter Wright on 020 7543 5731 or email him at peter.wright@publicfinance.org.

WANT TO ATTEND THE AWARDS CEREMONY IN MAY 2004?

We are delighted that Dermot Murnaghan and Mary Nightingale will once again host the ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday 10 May 2004. Tickets are available to individuals and organisations who want to enjoy this glittering occasion. Companies wishing to entertain public sector clients will find this appropriate setting an ideal opportunity to cement relationships and enjoy a splendid black-tie event celebrating outstanding achievements. Discounts are available for CIPFA exhibitors and sponsors. For more information, contact Laura Kerr on 020 7543 5872 or email her at laura.kerr@cipfa.org

AWARDS 2004 KEY DATES:

Judging: February 2004
Finalists notified: March 2004
Awards ceremony: MONDAY 10 MAY 2004

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