Twenty five fantastic teams were recognised at Community Care's inaugural Excellence Network in May.
The Excellence Network is a new honours programme that recognises innovative practice and shares it with the whole of social care.
All 25 recognised teams are demonstrating real passion and commitment and have implemented progressive ways of working. The five categories were user involvement, self-directed care, early intervention, partnership working and training and development.
We also celebrated the achievements of 10 individuals - our Community Care Champions - who have consistently gone beyond the call of duty.
All the learning points from these teams and projects - and from many more - can be accessed through our free good practice database.
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Honoured teams and individuals 2008
User Involvement
Older people: The Eden Alternative, Accord Housing Association, Telford
Children and families: The Big Bruvver Project Team, Staffordshire Children's Trust
Mental Health: Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service
Learning disabilities: Life and Social Skills Team, Home Farm Trust, Surrey
Disabilties: Stockton Parent Support
Self-Directed Care
Older people: Bell View Brokerage Project, Northumberland Learning disabilities: My Way, MacIntyre, Milton Keynes Disabilities: Individual Budgets National Pilot Team, Essex Council Children and families: Calcot Services for Children, Reading Partnership Working
Mental health: The Bridge Substance Misuse Service, Birmingham, and Gateway, Poole Children and families: East Cambridgeshire Children's Team Learning disabilities: Aberdeenshire Autism Services Disabilities: Reprovisioning Project Team, Melrose Older people: The Meadows Centre of Excellence, Stoke on Trent Training and Development
Children and families: Supporting Children Team, Conwy Council Mental Health: Wings Domestic Abuse Service, Dudley Disability: Central Performance Team, Staffordshire Older People: Dementia Specialist Team, Anchor Trust, London Learning disabilities: Investigations Support Unit, Liverpool Council Early Intervention
Children and families: Saucepans, Southampton Disability: Promoting Independence Team, Coventry Mental health: Bradford and Airedale Early Intervention Learning disabilities: The Pearl Service, London Older People: Supporting People OPMH, Essex Council Community Care Champions
Maureen Holliday, a support assistant in Essex's Supporting People Team Victoria Metcalfe, a dementia specialist team manager at the Anchor Trust Mark Pathak, an investigations officer at Liverpool City Council Michaela Webb, a senior support worker for Life and Social Skills team in Kingston Amanda Terry, quality assurance assessor for the central performance team in Staffordshire Ruth Benson, deputy manager of Stockton Parent Support Carol Anne Farquhar, team manager for Bradford & Airedale's Early Intervention Service Karen Smith, principal practitioner in the Supporting Children Team, in Conwy Mary Ryan, a substance misuse clinician in the Bridge Substance Misuse Service, Birmingham Karen Davies, team leader in the Saucepans mental health service in Southampton For more on the Excellence Network
Photos from the Excellence Network
For more in depth information on the winners, and for other good practice ideas, go the the Practice Database
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