The Excellence Awards

There's still time to enter the prestigious Local Public Services Awards which recognise and celebrate best practice in communications in our sector.

With eleven categories ranging from internal communications to digital, partnership, PR on a shoestring, publications and tackling crisis, there's something for everyone. And just to prove that size does matter, and in the interests of ensuring small teams are not forgotten, Communicators of the Year has been split into small and large team classes.

All work must have taken place between June 2009 and July 2010. If you won a CIPR award last year then you cannot re-enter it - but previous entries that did not win can be updated as long as the work took place in this time slot.

We now have a new and easier way to enter. So check out the categories and criteria and get your thinking caps on.

Don't forget the closing date is 30th July 2010, but we've provided an extended deadline to 6th August 2010 for those who might need a little more time, but this does have an extra fee aplicable.

Judges will be drawn from the CIPR, from academic centres of excellence specialising in PR and communications, and practictioners who have previously worked in local public services. They will draw up a shortlist for each category which will be published in September through PRNews.

The final judging panel will select the winning and highly commended choices.