Private Care Sector Workforce Initiative
Kay Carmichael Travel Award sponsored by the ADSW & the Scottish Government
Welcome to the 2010 Kay Carmichael Travel Award. The award has been renamed this year in honour of Kay Carmichael, the eminent social campaigner and member of the Kilbrandon Committee who sadly died in December 2009.
This award is about helping people improve understanding in their field of social work by allowing them to examine it from a different perspective. We all develop our own ways of doing things, and exploring how other people and other cultures approach similar issues can help us to improve, reassess or strengthen
our practice.
Last year’s winner of the award, Max Smart from East Lothian travelled to the United States to be trained in a Sioux Indian technique for including and ‘reclaiming’ young people who are in difficulties with their school, family and community. Max has taken this knowledge back to Lothian Villa, the residential care setting where he works and is using it to great effect. A report of Max’s work will be on the ADSW website soon. This is a great opportunity to expand an challenge your thinking and, through ADSW and Scottish Government opportunities, to share your experience with colleagues across the country.
Click here for more information and click here for an application form
