Media releases

Serco and Cardiff Aviation have teamed up to provide surface finish services to commercial and public sector organisations in the aerospace, engineering and automotive sectors from a new facility at St Athan, Cardiff Airport Enterprise Park, South Wales.

The new Bangor Aurora Aquatic & Leisure complex in Northern Ireland was officially opened by HRH Princess Anne earlier this year as part of a visit that was one of several engagements for Princess Anne in Northern Ireland. 

Serco Inc., a provider of professional, technology, and management services, announced today that the Company has been awarded a new contract to deliver fleet management and maintenance services to the City of Colorado Springs and Colorado Springs Utilities.  The contract has a five year base period valued at $35 million.

Serco, together with the UK's Leisure Trusts, has raised over £53,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care this year by providing the use of swimming pools to support the annual Swimathon event.  For the past ten years, Serco and the Leisure Trusts on behalf of which it acts as the Managing Agent, has supported the Swimathon event by providing the use of swimming pools across the country.  This year, the use of 20 pools helped to recruit 670 swimmers for the event raising a total of £53,813.54 for Marie Curie Cancer.

Serco Group plc (Serco), the international service company, notes the announcement today by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) that, for operational reasons, the South Yorkshire group of prisons will remain under public sector management.  We understand that the urgent need for change at these prisons means that the typical six-month period of mobilisation and transition to the private sector would not be in the best operational interest of the prisons.

Serco is once again sponsoring the prestigious Community Civic Awards this year in an attempt to find the local community hero of Welwyn Hatfield.

Serco today announces a change to its senior leadership. For the last four months Serco has been working hard to refresh its relationship with central government in the UK. As a result, Serco and Jeremy Stafford, Chief Executive of UK & Europe, have concluded that a change in the senior leadership of our UK & Europe Division would accelerate and consolidate that process.

Suffolk patients are happy with the quality of treatment they are receiving at the county's four community hospitals, with everyone using the service willing to recommend it to others.

Serco Group plc (Serco), the international service company, today issues its Interim Management Statement on the Group's performance from 30 June 2013 to date.  This also covers the anticipated 2013 outturn relative to expectations, an early 2014 outlook, a summary of contract awards in the period, and an update on the UK Government contract audits and reviews together with the associated one-off costs to date.

Smaller and medium-sized contract wins are fundamental to Serco's growth and value creation; in addition to larger wins, this release updates on a broad selection of recent contract awards.

Serco, the international service company, announced today that its Customer Contact Centre Outsourcing (CCO) business has been positioned as a 'Leader' by leading global services research and advisory firm, Everest Group, in its recent report, Contact Center Outsourcing (CCO) - Service Provider Landscape with PEAK MatrixT Assessment 2013. 

Sharon Colclough, Serco Director of Community Services, said: "Over the last six months we have been undertaking major transformational change in line with the vision for Suffolk Community Healthcare.

To mark Remembrance Sunday, seven members of Serco staff from HMP Lowdham Grange walked along the 33 mile canal path from Grantham to Nottingham last weekend, with two more colleagues joining them for the final fourteen miles, in aid of the Royal British Legion. The weather fortunately held out for the dedicated walkers who fought through the mud and passed hissing swans to finally complete the walk at Trent Bridge.

Serco and the Health Service Journal have launched a commission to investigate and help improve hospital care for frail older people. The Commission is chaired by Dame Julie Moore, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust

Serco, in partnership with NHS Forth Valley, has won the prestigious Golden Services Award 2013 for the cleanest healthcare premises with more than 250 beds.

Serco Group plc (Serco), the international service company, today notes the announcement by the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) that it has opened an investigation into the electronic monitoring contracts which commenced in 2005.

Serco has today launched the Waste Collection Guarantee (WCG) scheme to residents served by Canterbury City Council. The scheme is part of Serco's commitment to provide residents with a regular and reliable waste and recycling service.  Under this innovative scheme, whenever it misses a bin collection, Serco has committed to donate the cost of the collection to one of three specially selected charitable projects that were announced in October:  Umbrella Centre of Herne Bay and Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre both of which are mental health and wellbeing charities, together with homelessness charity Porchlight.  All three charities are set to receive £5,000 p.a. for the next two years and this donation will be topped up if Serco misses any bin collections.

Serco has pledged its support to the UK Armed Forces community by setting out its commitment to employing veterans and further supporting Reservists. The company, which has worked with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for the past 50 years, formally signed the Corporate Covenant at a Downing Street reception last night.

Update on corporate renewal programme

Serco Group plc (Serco), the international service company, today provides an update on its corporate renewal programme.  Serco clearly understands the need to be able to demonstrate to our UK Government customer substantive evidence of corporate renewal.  That is why we are today announcing the following comprehensive series of measures that reflect our commitment to improve transparency in our dealings with the UK Government.

Serco Group plc (Serco), the international service company, today announces that it has signed an extension to its contract with the Dubai Government Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) to continue to operate and maintain the Dubai Metro.  The five-year extension which will run to September 2019 is valued at approximately £355m, with an opportunity to extend for a further two years to 2021.