The UK civil service is admired around the world for its consistent ability to deliver an incredibly high standard of service to the country.

To maintain the government’s world-class status, it constantly strives to improve systems, drive efficiency and increase its operating standards. Innovation and research are essential to this constant improvement and it is vital that this best practice is communicated across government.

The Civil Service Awards have been developed as the only senior civil service awards programme that promotes innovation and improvement across the entire breadth of central government.

By taking examples of excellent projects, initiatives and teamwork championed by senior government, this unique programme provides a platform from which government can share knowledge and further modernise the delivery of services.

Its success comes from the programme’s ability to showcase winning teams as lessons in and examples of best practice that can be applied across the civil service through the pages of Civil Service World.