News

Our office in Swindon was delighted to receive an overall rating CQC of Good. This is a huge achievement for the team at Swindon and we are so proud that all their hard work has paid off.

We are delighted to announce that Nikki Elliott, one of our Service Managers in Bolton, has won a prestigious award at the Lifetime Learner Achievement Awards in Bristol.

The Welsh Care awards were held last Friday and we are delighted to announce that Liz Williams scooped the bronze award in her category.

Well done Liz!

There was an official opening ceremony last week for our service in Coventry, Limbrick Place.

We were joined by our partners, local council officials and the Mayor of West Midlands last week for the event.

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.