Public sector risk management organisation Alarm has introduced a new category in its annual awards for the risk management sector. This is the tenth year the awards have taken place.

The Audit Commission will sponsor the new award, called `Risk management - making a difference'.

Judges will be looking for "innovative ways of embedding risk management, processes which improve outcomes for service users and effective integration of risk management with existing business and performance management arrangements," said Alarm.

Entries are open to non-Alarm members and the winners will be announced at an award ceremony during Alarm's annual conference in June.