Winners of Community Care Awards 2002 announced

I.T.2 EAT – Overall winners at the Community Care Awards

The winners of the Community Care Awards
2002,
which recognise and celebrate the achievements of social care
professionals, have been announced for the 10 categories of
projects.

The overall winner was the I.T.2 Eat internet shopping service
for older people in Rotherham. The project , which has been running
since May last year, gave older people the facilities they needed
to find healthy eating advice on the internet, e-mail questions to
a dietician, and use the internet for their shopping.

The service, which is a partnership between Age Concern
Rotherham, Rotherham social services, Rotherham library service and
the town’s health primary care trust, won the inter-agency
category, collecting an award of £5,000. This cash will be
spent extending the service to older people from ethnic minority
groups.

An £8,000 prize for overall winner will be used to extend
the service into two new community settings, purchase new
equipment, and train new volunteers.

This year the event attracted in excess of 400 entries. The
judges – Andrew Cozens, director of Leicester social services
department; Amanda Edwards, head of knowledge services at the
Social Care Institute for Excellence; Professor Joan Orme from
Glasgow University’s department of social policy and social
work; Roger Singleton, chief executive of Barnardo’s; and
Polly Neate, editor of Community Care – praised the high
standard across the board.

Each category winner picked up a prize of £5,000.

The winners and shorlisted entries were:

CARERS

Sponsor: Reliance Care

Winner: Adult Guidance and Lifelong Learning
Service, run by CARES

Cars for Carers, run by RSVP

Kingston Dementia Café, run by the Royal Borough of
Kingston

CHILD PROTECTION

Sponsor: Five Rivers Family Placements

Winner: Polepark Family Service, run by
Barnardo’s

Prevention = Protection, run by Eighteen and Under

Protecting Children in Prisons, run by Staffordshire Social
Services

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Sponsor: Five Rivers

Winner: Hearsex Peer Education Project, run by
Birmingham Social Services

Essex Children Forum, run by Essex Council

Luton Children’s Panel, run by Luton Council

DISABILITY

Sponsor: Cooper Stanley

Winner: Ask Us!, run by the Children’s
Society

@liberty (Disability Awareness), run by London Borough of
Hounslow

Can-Do Community Recycling, run by Aberdeenshire council

DRUGS AND ALCOHOL

Sponsor: CELSIAN

Winner: Cracked, run by Immediate Theatre

Drugs Recovery Project, run by ECHG

Young People’s Service, run by Alcohol Services in
Cheshire

INTER-AGENCY WORK

Sponsor: OLM

Winner: I.T. 2 Eat, run by Age Concern
Rotherham

Creative Minds, run by The Blue Elephant Theatre

The Asphaleia Project, run by Supporting Young Unaccompanied
Asylum Seekers at School

LEARNING DIFFICULTIES

Sponsor: Craegmoor Healthcare

Winner: Supercare/Green & Clean, run by
Ealing Mencap

Inclusions, run by Community Link Up

The Trans-Active Project, run by Mencap

MENTAL HEALTH

Sponsor: SWIIS

Winner: Woman’s Trust, run by
Woman’s Trust

Community Mental Health Web Site, run by Leicestershire Action
for Mental Health Project

No. 12 (drop-in centre), run by Praxis

OLDER PEOPLE/INTERMEDIATE CARE

Sponsor: Bupa Care Services

Winner: Good Morning Galliagh, run by Galliagh
Community Development Group

Healthy Living Centre, run by Age Concern Hull

Involving Older People in Designing and Evaluating Day Care
Service, run by Age Concern Norfolk;

Norfolk Home Call Accreditation Scheme for Low Level Service,
run by Norfolk social services

YOUNG OFFENDERS

Sponsor: Corvedale Care

Winner: Community Payback Scheme, run by
Sunderland Youth Offending Service

Avoiding Confrontation with Adults, run by Centre for Fun and
Families

North Washington Youth Inclusion Project, run by Sunderland
Youth Offending Service.