Glasgow Housing Association's (GHA) Sheltered Housing Team became the first-ever winners of a brand new award category launched at this year's Scottish Care at Home (SCAH) Awards.
Its Housing Support Team took home the newly-introduced Care Alliance Award 2008 at the SCAH awards ceremony in Glasgow's Thistle Hotel. The awards recognises contribution to the Care Sector and was created in response to the high number of nominations from non-SCAH members.
Individual team member, admin officer, William McQueen, was also nominated for an individual award in the same category - making it a double nomination for GHA.
The Sheltered Housing Team comprises 82 staff members, supporting over 1000 GHA tenants in 35 sheltered housing and very sheltered housing complexes across Glasgow.
Managed from a central support base at GHA's headquarters at Granite House, the Sheltered Housing Support Team has gone from strength to strength in the two years since its re-launch.
Two Care Commission inspections have commended the GHA service and several complexes across the city are regularly attaining four and five star ratings in their annual health and safety assessments. A recent GHA Tenant Satisfaction Survey 2007 indicated that satisfaction levels had increased in sheltered and supported housing.
Catherine Wilkie, Sheltered and Supported Housing Manager at GHA said: "We are immensely proud of the team who have achieved an incredible amount in a short space of time. To be the winners of this sought-after award - the first of its kind - adds to an ever-growing list of the team's achievements."
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