Originally posted June 2009
Four top honors were scooped by Stoke-on Trent City Council in this year’s coveted Community Care Excellence Network Awards held on 13 May 2009.
The council has been recognised for excellence and innovation in social care by winning the following prizes:
• St Michael’s Centre of Excellence, winner of the early intervention category. The centre’s healthy living team has helped 200 vulnerable older people in their homes since it opened last July.
• Riverside Employment Training Service, winner in the training and development category. The £1million centre has supported more than 40 people with learning disabilities into paid or voluntary work since set up in January this year.
Two council employees were named in the awards’ top 10 ‘champions’ – a category which recognises outstanding individuals, unsung heroes and frontline professionals. They are:
• Cheryl Ashman, the assistant manager of the Shelton Day Service. Cheryl spent hours of her own time helping establish Expressions café in the Potteries Shopping Centre’s, which employs adults with learning disabilities and sells Fairtrade goods.
• Residential services manager Linda Cumberbatch, who is responsible for the healthy living teams at the council’s centres of excellence. The award recognises her work with older people and tailoring services to support them.
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