Public Sector Transformation Awards
Rewarding UK Public Sector Organisations for their efforts in improving and transforming local public services.
The annual iESE Public Sector Transformation Awards are an opportunity to celebrate and share the most innovative practice in transforming local public services. For all of us in local government, embracing financial pressures in order to excel is a way of life. Developing new ways of working and transforming service delivery isn’t ‘just another day in the office’, it’s our passion.
No public money is spent on the event because the IESE Public Sector Transformation Awards ceremony is sponsored by individual businesses. Therefore, each winner is provided with free places in recognition of their efforts in improving their local areas.
When is the next awards ceremony? Wednesday 9th March 2022 – click here for event
When are nominations open? Yes nominations are now OPEN! The deadline to apply is Friday 21st January 2022, click here to download the nomination form.
Who takes part? Any public sector organisation in the UK and overseas.
How Do I Apply for the Transformation Awards?
To apply for the awards, you will need to complete our nomination form which will ask for you to cover the following sections in a maximum of 5000 words:
- An overview of your nomination
- How has your initiative showed innovation?
- How has your initiative has had an impact?
- How has your initiative improved the skills and capabilities?
- What was the quality of delivery of the initiative?
- How has the initiative made a contribution to the sector?
Each submission is scored and judges against other submissions within each category. The scoring key as follows:
- 0: No reference to the criteria at all
- 1 – 3: Mention of criteria somewhere in the nomination
- 4 – 6: Described at some length, with the relevant information
- 7 – 10: Evidence has been given that it has been done
The Finalists
Once the finalists have been shortlisted for each category, we will ask you to send in a video summarising your award winning nomination so that we can share it with the sector and showcase your best practice.
This year we held an online finalists event where we invited all our awards finalists to come and be interviewed about their nomination which we streamed live to hundreds of viewers. You can catch up on the action by clicking here.

Transformation Award Categories
Every year we receive hundreds of nominations for the Public Sector Transformation Awards from local authorities across the UK. Awards are available for the following categories in Gold, Silver or Bronze.
- Asset Management and Regeneration
- Best Transformation Team
- Communications
- Community Focus
- Customer Focus
- The Use of Digital and Technology
- The Use of Data Insight
- Efficiency and Effectiveness
- Green Public Service
- Innovation
- Transformation in Health & Social Care
- Working Together
- Fire & Rescue Service of the Year
- Police Service of the Year
- Council of the Year
- Chairman’s Award

Transformation Award Testimonials
Nominations for 2022 Transformation Awards are officially OPEN! The deadline to apply is Friday 21st January 2022.
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