This year, due to COVID, once again our Christmas celebration was held via Zoom. All schemes including the houses, Grafton, Day Opps and Longbow (Head Office) attended. The Zoom event was hosted by Day Opps, starting with a Makaton cover of 'Frosty the Snowman' by Longbow: https://youtu.be/6BVIl0FjXN8 (see below). https://youtu.be/6BVIl0FjXN8 Following this, we [...]
Last Thursday, a group from CCL attended the Caring UK Awards. CCL was shortlisted as a finalist for the 'Care Employer of the Year' award. It was a fantastic evening hosted by the Caring UK Awards at the Athena in Leicester. The event included a performance by Cirque de Lumiere, who were mesmerising and fascinating [...]
Last month, students, staff and parents at the Grafton Centre enjoyed supporting Children in Need. Students in CCL’s purple class utilised their arts and craft skills to design a poster advertising the event. During the week leading up to Children in Need on Friday 19 November, the students partook in Pudsey themed crafts, Attention Autism and [...]
We would like to congratulate Zoe Perdue on becoming registered manager of CCL’s Welwyn scheme. After undertaking the interview with CQC, she did a fantastic job, and she is now Registered Manager under the Health & Social Care Act. Zoe has been at CCL since September 2017, starting at our education provision at Grafton, initially. [...]
On Thursday 14th October, we held our annual Colleague of the Year and Steve McGill Awards. The ceremony was held at Fitz Village Hall and all 12 finalists were invited to attend a socially distanced afternoon with cake, coffee and tea! Vikki Pryce, Chief Executive, presented the awards, alongside Mike Blakemore, Executive Group Member. The [...]
On Saturday 30th October, CCL attended the Great British Care Awards for the West Midlands region. In total, CCL’s team were nominated for 7 awards, including: Jo Mear, Director of Care & Support – ‘The Outstanding Contribution to Social Care’ Andrew Harris, Director of Operations – ‘The Social Care Covid Hero Award’ CCL’s Speech & [...]
For Halloween, Harley Road decided to host the 'The Spookiest Halloween Picture' competition. They had some wonderful entries and all are winners in our eyes, but after much deliberation from the Harley Road residents, the winners were Kyle and Lewis from the Day Opportunities Programme. There is a prize to be gifted to the winners [...]
Happy Halloween from all at CCL! To celebrate, our Speech & Language team have created a video demonstrating Halloween related Makaton signs. We hope you enjoy! https://youtu.be/OIUZu6TzpVE
We are extremely excited to announce that Amy’s Eye Gaze communication aid has been purchased and is now with Amy! On behalf of Amy’s family, in particular Phil, Fran, Beth and Sally, thank you to all who donated and sponsored the ‘Shropshire 3 Peaks’ walk via Just Giving, bank transfers and cash. Amy’s mum, Fran [...]
CCL are delighted to be featured in the Shropshire Star for being shortlisted for 7 Great British Care Awards in the West Midlands region. Take a look: https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/education/2021/10/14/college-is-in-the-running-for-a-clutch-of-care-awards/
