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Iit is suitable that people across the globe, who are committed to innovation are honoured with these awards.
Nominate an innovative person or group of people or self-nominate yourself today for our International Award.
All entries must be submitted by email only.
Step 1: Nominate someone whom you know or self-nominate yourself.
Step 2: When you are ready, submit your application.
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This award is open to all qualified social workers who have made a difference through their outstanding work with children and families.
This award is open to all qualified social workers who have made a difference through their outstanding work with adults.
This award is open to all newly qualified social workers with less than one year’s experience who have made a positive difference to the lives of children and families through their outstanding work. The entry should show how they have made change, formed strong relationships and shown resilience.
This award is open to newly qualified social workers with less than one year’s experience, who have made a positive difference to the lives of vulnerable adults through their outstanding work. The entry should show how they have made change, formed strong relationships and shown resilience.
This award is open to qualified social workers who have been involved in teaching, assessing and supervising students and newly qualified social workers. Nominees must be able to demonstrate how they have successfully motivated students to develop their career in social
This award is open to all university students studying social work who are showing outstanding potential in their studies. They will be able to demonstrate how they have surpassed expectations and have a thorough understanding of social work theory and practice.
This award is open to all social work teams who have made a difference through their outstanding work with children and families.
This award is open to all social work teams who have made a difference through their outstanding work with adults.
This award is open to team leaders or department managers who are responsible for children’s social work teams. Nominees must be able to show clear leadership skills and the ability to successfully manage a team.
This award is open to team leaders or department managers who are responsible for adult social work teams. Nominees must be able to show clear leadership skills and the ability to successfully manage a team.
This category is open to social workers specialising in mental health in England who are excelling in delivering positive outcomes for their service users.
This award is open to individual social workers, social work teams or departments who have shown outstanding creativity and innovation in a project or campaign.
This award is open to any organisation within the social services profession who can demonstrate excellent practice as an employer in motivating, leading and championing their social work employees.
This award is open to qualified social workers who have made a lifetime career of social work and have become a role model and inspiration to the profession.
This award is open to all qualified social workers who are NOT employed by a Local Authority (e.g independent social workers, locum workers or social workers in other settings such as the charitable sector, education, regulators etc).
This award is open to all qualified social workers, social work teams, organisations or networks who have been champions for the value base of social work through their work or other activities.
The Board of Trustees will choose the Overall Social Worker of the Year 2018 from the individual category winners.
The Social Work Awards Board will present an award to an individual who has made the biggest contribution to improving the reputation of social work over the past 12 months.