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Huge congratulations to Liz Williams, a Team Leader at Lifeways Wrexham, who has beaten some tough competition to be shortlisted for the Care Practitioner award at this year's Wales Care Awards.

The new edition of Lifelines is now available from your local area office. We're delighted with this new-look version, as we have been working in co-production with the people we support to review and relaunch this new version.

We are delighted to announce that we have successfully retained our two contracts to provide supported living services in Doncaster.

Retaining this contract means we can continue to enhance the quality of life we already provide to ensure people enjoy happy and independent lives.

At the 2017 awards Lifeways came highly commended in the Employer Category and went on to be placed on the Top 100 National Apprenticeship Employers, something we are very proud of. Building on that success, Nikki Elliott, Service Manager in Bolton has been selected as a finalist in the Higher Apprenticeship Category this year.

Support Worker Sophie got in touch to tell us the story of how she changed her lifestyle for the better and share some before and after photos of her health transformation to inspire the teams taking part in our Step Up For Summer challenge.

Nominations are now open for The Learning Disability and Autism Leaders' List 2018. If you have a learning disability and/or autism you can share your story. If you know someone with a learning disability and/or autism you can nominate them.

As part of our week of activities, to celebrate co-production week, we launched a new initiative called, Walking in Someone Else's Shoes. Find out how our new CEO, Justin, got on.

Last week we were joined by the Mayor of Worcester and our partners for a special tree planting ceremony at Bedwardine Court, Worcester.

The local community, people we support and staff came together to celebrate everything that Loch Park does and raise money for local charities.

Fir Tree Court in Cannock is now open.

The official opening ceremony was held last week at our new supported living development in Cannock, Staffordshire.

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year there has been a focus on stress!

We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Innovation in Action category at the prestigious 2018 Scottish Care Awards.