Nominations are now open for this year’s Regional Great British Care Awards. The Great British Care Awards, sponsored by Well Pharmacy, are a series of 9 regional awards celebrating excellence across the care sector.
The purpose of the awards is to promote best practice within social care, and pay tribute to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding excellence within their field of work.
Sector support includes the Department of Health, Care England, The National Care Forum, Alzheimer’s Society, The Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) as well as commercial organisations.
There are a total of twenty one award categories available for nomination, which represent all areas of the care sector. From older people or specialist services to frontline staff such as care workers and care managers to people who have made an impact in other ways such as chefs, activity co-ordinators and innovators in the sector.
Category winners from each of the 9 regions will go through to a National Final in Spring 2018. This event takes place at The ICC in Birmingham, where the overall national winners will be announced.
Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England said,
“Social care work is one of the most difficult, and at the same time, one of the most spiritually rewarding careers. People who work in social care, make a huge difference to the lives of the people they work with, and are some of society’s unsung heroes.
The Great British Care Awards looks to redress the lack of recognition that people who work in social care receive, and is recognising and rewarding the very best in the social care workforce, giving them praise and respect for the transformational work that they do every day.”
Vic Rayner, Executive Director of the National Care Forum said,
“It is so important to recognise the achievements of staff working at the front line of care. Their dedication and focus on outstanding care was rightly celebrated in style at the awards, and it is a privilege to support these events.
Thank you to the team at the Great British Care Awards for putting your heart and soul into highlighting the value of care.“
Now in their eleventh year the Great British Care Awards have established themselves as ‘The People’s Awards’, where recognition of the frontline social care workforce remains at the heart of the events.
Employers , teams, care workers, families, suppliers to the sector and service users are encouraged to nominate at www.care-awards.co.uk/nominate