Scottish Social Services Council

Shortlisted entries for Care Accolades 2008

 

Successful and innovative initiatives to retain staff

  • Dundee City Council, Social Work Department


Involvement of people who use services in any aspect of the organisation’s work

  • North Ayrshire Council, Interlink Day Services, Fergushill Centre
  • Barnardo’s, SPACE Service, Dundee
  • South Lanarkshire Council - Partners in practice

 

Initiatives that promote integrated working that improve services

  • South Lanarkshire Council - Lanarkshire drug treatment and testing project
  • North Ayrshire Council, Social Services, Community Development Team – Redburn gypsy/travellers project
  • Fife Council, Social Work Services – Multi agency access to the fife child protection register

 

Innovative and/or imaginative learning and development in the workplace    

  • South Lanarkshire Council – Developing a research culture
  • Highland Council, Social Work Services - Love is..... working with people with learning disabilities about relationship and sexuality
  • CHILDREN 1st and Glasgow School of Social Work – A continuing practitioner research programme

 

Innovative practice learning frameworks that promote service user and staff involvement

  • Robert Gordon University – Developing an innovative practice learning framework that promotes service user and staff involvement 

 

Best Scottish social service team, unit or service from the voluntary, public or private sector

  • South Lanarkshire Council, Cathkin Community Nursery
  • Falkirk Council, Stenhousemuir Children and Families Team
  • Renfrewshire Council - Mentoring support project

 

Overall winner


An overall winner will be announced on the day from the winners of all the categories.


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