Civil Service Awards 2009

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The winners of the Civil Service Awards 2009 were announced in a ceremony held at the Banqueting House in London on 17 November 2009.  Once again the Civil Service Commissioners were delighted to be sponsoring the Cabinet Secretary's Award.

 

Sir Gus O'Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service, and Janet Paraskeva, the First Civil Service Commissioner, chose as their winners for 2009 both a team and an individual who had made an outstanding contribution to public service demonstrating pride, passion, pace and professionalism and embodying the values and behaviours outlined in the Civil Service Code: honesty, integrity, objectivity and impartiality.

 

The winners of the Cabinet Secretary's Award for 2009, selected from amongst all the category winners on the night, were:

 

Jobcentre Plus, Department for Works and Pensions

The organisation has borne the brunt of dealing with the consequences of the recession.  Millions of people have depended on Jobcentre Plus over the past year with the organisation successfully responding to unprecedented increases in its workload.

 

Lori Chilton, Inverventions and Substance Misuse Group, Ministry of Justice

Lori, winner of the Leadership Award, revolutionised the delivering of drug treatment programmes across the prison service, increasing delivery by 100 per cent, bringing in quality assurance, and setting up new partnership working.  She achieved all this with drive and pace, whilst dealing with a re-emergence of cancer.

 

In addition, Kim Hancock, Electronic Warfare Risk Reduction Project, Ministry of Defence, was specifically commended by the judges for her operational delivery work.

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