SUFFOLK-based Sanctuary Personnel is celebrating a double success at the 2012 Recruiter Awards for Excellence, held in London.

Sanctuary won both the Best Client Service category and the Best Public Sector Recruitment Agency title at the awards, organised by Recruiter magazine and held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Mayfair.

Located on the Ipswich Waterfront, Sanctuary Personnel is the largest privately owned social work recruitment company in the UK and has become the preferred supplier of qualified social workers to more than 160 councils, the NSPCC, CAFCASS and the NHS.

The company alsodirectly delivers adult and children’s statutory social work, working in partnership with central government and numerous councils to help them reduce costs and improve the quality of existing service levels.

James Rook, managing director of Sanctuary Personnel, said: “Sanctuary is full of amazing people and I cannot explain the pride in being able to receive these awards on behalf of so many exceptional individuals.”