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Guardian Public Service Awards 2019: the finalists


The Public Service Awards’ panel of judges has met and deliberated, and the Guardian is delighted to announce the shortlisted projects, teams and individuals in each of the 11 judged categories of this year’s awards.

The finalists for public servant of the year, which is decided by public vote, have also been announced. Voting is now open and will close at 11.59am on 15 October 2019.

All the winners and runners-up, including the overall winner, will be announced at our awards ceremony on 26 November 2019 and a special supplement will be published online and in the paper on 27 November 2019.

The 2019 category finalists, in alphabetical order by organisation/individual surname, are:

Care

Hillingdon council: adolescents team

Independent Living Fund Scotland: transition fund

Mary Stevens Hospice, West Midlands: increasing care, compassion and kindness at the hospice and in the community

Climate champions

Mayfield and Easthouses Development Trust: I’m back caring – clean the river

Norfolk county council: Norfolk assistance scheme

Nottingham city council: Nottingham – carbon neutral by 2028

Digital innovation

Turn2us: Connect SMS-based benefits support project

University hospitals Birmingham NHS foundation trust: – network of on-call referral services

WDP: Capital card project for people battling addiction

Housing

believe housing: new-build programme

Commonweal and Praxis Community Projects: NRPR project – no recourse to public funds housing service for destitute migrants

Settle charity: support programme for vulnerable young people moving into their first home

Leadership excellence

Kevin Coutinho, gender policy manager, University College London, and chair, Windsor Fellowship

Alexandra Johnson, deputy chief fire officer, South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue

Penny McKissock, chief executive, Southside Family Project

Public health & wellbeing – sponsored by IFPMA

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South west London and St George’s NHS trust: Merton Citizens

Sandwell metropolitan borough council: Sandwell blue light project

The 2025 Movement, North Wales: The 2025 Movement – addressing avoidable inequalities: working in the gaps

Recruitment & HR

Hackney council: Hackney apprenticeship programme

Kirklees council: In2Care Kirklees

Newlon Housing Trust: residents’ work placement programme

Transformation – sponsored by EY

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Community Foundation Northern Ireland: Space & Place programme

East Ayrshire council housing asset services: Bellsbank project

University College London hospitals NHS foundation trust & partners: The Lighthouse integrated child sex abuse service

Workplace diversity

Touchstone (Leeds community development): Pink Pals, transgender awareness, recruitment

Tower Hamlets council: capital delivery team

West Midlands Fire Service: recruitment and positive action

Workplace learning & development

Cabinet Office: civil servant talent accelerated development schemes team

Coventry city council: social work academy

Housing Executive (Northern Ireland): asset management training programme

Workplace wellbeing

Basildon council: HR team

Insolvency Service: Break the stigma project

Waltham Forest council: premature baby policy

Overall winner

The creme de la creme of our awards, this celebrates the very best of the category winners, deemed by the judges to be the strongest of this year’s entries.

This team or individual will have demonstrated an exceptional level of application, innovation and achievement, and will have delivered substantial improvement in a public service that has made a real difference to people’s lives.

This award will be announced, with all the other winners, at the awards evening in November.



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