Community Care Award winners announced

Community Care is pleased to announce the winners of the Community Care Awards 2004.

Our awards celebrate and reward the work of social care professionals across the UK and highlight the positive work you do every day.

The winners of the 10 categories were announced at the ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, London. Each category winner was awarded a cheque for £5,000.

Drugs and Alcohol category winner, The Bridging the Gap Project: Alcohol and Drug Services, was judged to be the overall winner and received an additional £8,000.

Bridging the Gap is an innovative pilot project that uses the experiences of former drug and alcohol users, and those of their family and friends, to help treat current drug and alcohol service users in Tameside, near Manchester. The project offers a six-month part-time training course to 25 ex- users to equip them with the skills and knowledge needed to become drug and alcohol support workers. Seventeen students from the first course have found work in the field.

The winners of the other categories were:-

Category:- CARERS
Sponsor: Reliance Care

Winner:- Access Initiative: Minority Ethnic Carers of Older People Project

Short-listed entries:-

Informal Carer Training (Dementia): Walsall Teaching Primary Care Trust  HIGHLY COMMENDED

2003 highlights

Staff Carers’ Register: Lancashire Council Social Services Department

Category:- DISABILITY
Sponsor: Cooper Stanley

Winner:- Westminster Employment Service: Westminster City Council

Short-listed entries:-

Action on Disability Project: Upper Springfield Development Trust

No Limits: Suffolk Social Care

Category:- DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
Sponsor: Phoenix House

Winner:- The Bridging the Gap Project: Alcohol & Drug Services

Short-listed entries:-

Children’s Group – Sunflower Garden Project: FSU Scotland

Ozone: English Churches Housing Group

Category:- INTER-AGENCY WORK
Sponsor:- Reed Social Care

Winner:- Lewisham Vulnerable Young Children’s Team: School-Home Support

Short-listed entries:-

Babyfather Initiative: Barnardo’s  HIGHLY COMMENDED

Healthy Communities Collaborative “Watch Your Step”: Age Concern Northampton & County

Category:- LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
Sponsor: Craegmoor

Winner:- Learning Disability Pilot Scheme: Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre

Short-listed entries:-

Breast Friends/Drama: Winlaton Community Base HIGHLY COMMENDED

Oak Green Lodge: Options for Life

Thera Trust Quality Framework: Thera Trust

Category:-MENTAL HEALTH
Sponsor: National Institute for Mental Health in England

Winner:- When Channel One Met Year Ten: Sound Minds

Short-listed entries:-

Rehabilitation and Recovery Services – Setting Standards and Performing Well:

Sunderland Community Mental Health Partnership

Urban Explorers: Bloom HIGHLY COMMENDED

Category:- OLDER PEOPLE AND INTERMEDIATE CARE
Sponsor: Care UK

Winner:- Primary Night Care Service: Blackpool Council

Short-listed entries:-

Building Bridges: Older People’s Modernisation Team

Community Outreach Team (Specialist Dementia Service): Age Concern Morgannwg HIGHLY COMMENDED

Category:- SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Winner:- Family Support Project: Bully Free Zone

Short-listed entries:-

Community Chest: Oxfordshire Council HIGHLY COMMENDED

Making Contact Family Linking Service: Contact A Family

Category:- SUPPORTING CHILDREN IN FOSTERING AND ADOPTION
Sponsor: Families for Children

Winner:- Children Who Foster: North Tyneside Council

Short-listed entries:-

Outer Limits: London Borough of Ealing Children’s Services

Supporting Adoptive Families: Nottinghamshire Social Services Department

Wassup: Swansea Council for Voluntary Services

Category:– YOUNG OFFENDERS
Sponsor: Greencorns

Winner:- Parenting Support Programme: Newham Youth Offending Team

Short-listed entries:-

Families Who Needs Them?: Partners of Prisoners and Families Support Group

Project Max: Bristol Youth Offending Team
 

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