Media releases

Serco’s International Fire Training Centre (IFTC) has become the first organisation in the UK - and only the second in Europe - to receive international approval for its fire training service from the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO).  

Serco’s Marine Services team yesterday (Thursday 5 May) helped North Ayrshire Council securely transport ballot boxes full of votes for the Scottish Parliament election from the islands to the mainland for counting.

Serco has appointed Faye Shaw as the new Managing Director for its UK Citizen Services business, which includes the company’s employment, skills and enterprise operations and employee support and customer contact services for the public sector.

Serco Group plc (Serco), the international service company, announces that, further to selection as preferred tenderer on 29 October 2015, its wholly-owned subsidiary DMS Maritime Pty Ltd (DMS Maritime) has now signed the contract for the Design, Build, Operation and Maintenance (DBOM) of the new icebreaker Research and Supply Vessel (RSV) for the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) of the Department of the Environment.

Serco, working in partnership with East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, has won a national industry award for its work to improve patient catering services in East Kent. The inaugural Hospital Caterers’ Association (HCA) “6Cs Award” is one of only five awards handed out by the industry body in recognition of work to improve patient catering services.

Serco has appointed Aaron Henricksen to lead its newly created Employment, Skills and Enterprise business within the company’s Citizen Services offering in the UK.  The new business - which brings together those working in welfare services, vocational services and Peninsula Enterprise - reinforces Serco’s commitment to the employment support sector as the industry today celebrates the first ever UK Employability Day.

Following the conclusion of the Trial of Facts in relation to Humphrey Burke, Rupert Soames, Serco Group Chief Executive, said: “We were all appalled and deeply saddened by the killing of Lorraine Barwell by Humphrey Burke. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this time and on behalf of everyone at Serco I want to send them our sincerest sympathies and condolences.

Apprentices from across Serco have helped transform a popular youth centre in Ravenscroft, Hook.

The eight-strong team spent Friday 1 April redecorating The Base Youth Centre. The project involved giving the walls a fresh coat of paint and planting new flowers and shrubs in the outside space.

Serco’s in-house catering team at Forth Valley Royal Hospital, in collaboration with Glasgow-based fruit and vegetables suppler, Fáilte Produce and procurement partner e-foods, yesterday marked World Health Day 2016 with a special event in the hospital restaurant to promote the benefits of healthy eating.

Serco Inc., a provider of professional, technology, and management services, announced today that the Company has been awarded a new contract to deliver lifecycle sustainment support for the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s (NAVFAC) command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) systems at locations worldwide. The five year contract and options are valued at $131 million. The contract was initially awarded in December 2015 and a stop work order was issued due to a protest which has been resolved.

Serco has been awarded a £5m contract to supply the German Air Force with equipment to support their fleet of Eurofighters.  

Following a complete makeover, the new Virgin Trains and Caledonian Sleeper First Class Lounge at Edinburgh Waverley was opened today by Hearts director Ann Budge.

Michael Guy has taken over as Serco’s new Custodial Operations Director at HMP Kilmarnock.  Michael is a highly respected and experienced Prison Director and comes to Kilmarnock from HMP Dovegate in Staffordshire where he has worked for the past two years. 

Serco waved goodbye to Northern Rail, our joint venture with Abellio, on 31 March after 11 very successful years that have seen the service go from strength to strength.

Serco Group plc (‘Serco’ or ‘the Group’), the international service company, is pleased to announce that an updated contract to manage the operations of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (‘AWE’) has been agreed by AWE Management Limited (‘AWE ML’) and the Ministry of Defence (‘MoD’).  As previously disclosed, the UK Government has been reviewing these arrangements, and this process has now concluded successfully.

Serco’s efforts to modernise and improve parking services in Brent have helped the London Borough Council scoop a 2016 British Parking Award. Brent Council were named Team of the Year at the industry awards earlier this month, following a year in which Serco worked closely with them to deliver significant improvements to their parking service.

Rebecca (“Bec”) Older - a Serco employee who works as a Group Exercise Instructor in Kent - has fought off competition from almost 10,000 entrants to be named Les Mills’ UK Instructor of the Year for showing inspirational commitment to her fitness classes while fighting breast cancer.

Serco’s business support service in the South West of England - Peninsula Enterprise - has been awarded a three-year contract by The Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership (HotSW LEP) to manage its new “Growth Hub” central business advice service.

Serco Asia Pacific has welcomed the extension of two corrections contracts with the Queensland and Western Australian governments. The extensions come on the back of independent reports in the two states which have strongly endorsed the efficiency and effectiveness of private sector management in the prison system.