Skills for Care Accolades 2010

Social care organisations, individual employers and staff throughout England are invited to submit nominations for a range of categories that celebrate the very best in workforce development.

Achieving an Accolade proves you are improving the lives of people using social care services through workforce development.

The awards this year will take place on the 25 November at The Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair, London, where we will be joined by Breakfast TV star Penny Smith.


Nominations are welcome for fourteen categories

Categories 1 - 11 are applicable to the adult social care workforce only

1. Best employer of under 250 staff
2. Best employer of over 250 staff
3. Best individual employer who employs their own staff
4. Best provider of learning and development
5. Most effective recruitment initiative
6. Best partnership with people who use services and /or carers
7. Best partnership supporting the transformation to personalisation
8. Most innovative workforce development practice in a specialist service
9. Most effective employer investment in Apprenticeships
10. Most effective employer support for continuing professional development of social workers
11. Most effective employer support for Newly Qualified Social Worker (NQSW)

Venue:

The Dorchester Hotel
Park Lane
London
W1K 1QA

The Skills for Care Accolades aim to highlight examples where the lives of people using social care services have been improved through workforce development.