The Church of Scotland’s Social Care Council, CrossReach, has been recognised for tackling recruitment challenges in the social care sector at the Scottish Social Services Awards.

The CrossReach recruitment programme, ‘Get into Care with CrossReach’ (see page 28), designed in partnership with the Prince’s Trust Scotland, won the ‘Making Change Happen’ award for supporting young people under the age of 30 to get into social care.

The programme offers employability support, interview skills training and one-to-one coaching with a guaranteed interview at the end. Six young people were recruited into social care at the end of the recent pilot.

Viv Dickenson, CrossReach’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “We are delighted to have won the award for ‘Making Change Happen’ at the Scottish Social Services Awards.

“Our partnership with the Prince’s Trust Scotland continues to enable less advantaged young people to enter social care as a career whilst being supported into employment with us through coaching, training and development over the five-week programme.”