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Care Awards

Outstanding Contribution to Care

This special award is awarded each year by the Association to indivduals who have made a long-term outstanding contribution to social care.

2024:

Shirley Way

Shirley is head of area for Skills for Care. We are happy to award this years Outstanding Contribution to Care Award to Shirley in recognition of all the work she has done both as the locality manager for the Black Country and now as Head of Area for the Midlands.

2022:

Debbie Le Quesne

This year we have decided to award it to our former Chief Exec Debbie Le Quesne who has been a tireless champion for Adult Social Care and continues to be involved in the sector even in her retirement

Thank you for all you have done to support the sector over the years Debbie

2021:

All of WMCAs Members

The Outstanding Contribution to care award is in the gift of the Association and itt is normally awarded to an individual who has made a real difference to care within the West Midlands

This year we have decided to award it to all of our members. In a challenging year you have all gone above and beyond to care for your residents, service users and each other during an unprecedented pandemic, so for us there could have been no other winner.

As an appreciation we have sent certificates acknowledging this to all of our members. We picked out one of our members at random to represent and receive the award on behalf of everyone. This is Bal Bisla from Angel Care Homes

2020:

David Johnson

In 1984 the Care Industry changed, and the emphasis was on Local Authorities to support the Care Homes. However initially they did not have any ideas of how to do this.

David and his wife (who was a Nurse) were one of the first Providers to set up a Care Home Wychbury in Stourbridge and put into place policies and procedures to ensure their staff knew how to look after there residents safely and sensitively.

Once Wychbury was working well, David went about supporting other Care Homeowners to share best practice and give practical advice at a time when there was none. Providers came to Wychbury to see what they did and discuss ideas. Soon they started to meet regularly and so was born, the Care Association, made up of 25 Care Homes, most are still members today. David was the initial president which continued for the next 10 years and he continued to offer his support after that.

This Association was the start of the West Midlands Care Association and our aim of ‘A quality Care Service for a fair fee’.

We would like to award David this year's Oustanding Contribution to Care Aware for his work in Care, in Dudley, the West Midlands and to the Care Association

2019:

Adam Hutchison

Adam Hutchison is a dedicated care provider at Belmont Care, known for his compassionate and professional approach. With experience in supporting individuals with diverse needs, he prioritizes personalized care tailored to each person's preferences and circumstances. Adam has written extensively on how care provision needs to evolve

2018:

Renny Wodynska

Renny is Head of Area (Midlands) for Skills for Care

She has over 20 years’ senior social care strategic and operational management experience, She has developed and led corporate strategies on safeguarding, dementia and falls prevention and is currently leading implementation of Skills for Care's Business Plan across the East and West Midlands region