WHAT’S NEW? NEW CATEGORY ADDED TO NACC
AWARDS 2020 The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has added a new category to the NACC Awards for 2020: The Triumph Over Adversity Award
The new award specifically honours the extraordinary efforts of care caterers during the coronavirus pandemic – from those working in care homes to those supporting the vulnerable in the community.
The Triumph Over Adversity Award, sponsored by CaterCloud, is open for nominations from NACC members. It recognises and celebrates teams and individuals from the care sector (from care establishments and community services to businesses and suppliers associated with the sector), who have overcome significant business or personal difficulties to ensure the continued delivery of a quality meal service for residents and customers since the coronavirus pandemic.
Following the introduction of the new award, the deadline for entries for all categories of the NACC Awards has been extended until 17th July 2020.
Sue Cawthray, National Chair, NACC, said: “The coronavirus pandemic has made 2020 an incredibly challenging year, especially for the care sector at the forefront of caring for and protecting the most vulnerable in our society. Care caterers up and down the country have more than stepped up to the challenge.
“They’ve ensured residents who suddenly found themselves isolated from the outside world continue to receive nutritious meals and met the increased demand for meals delivery to the vulnerable older population in the community
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OUT ACROSS ENGLAND The government is extending whole care home testing to all adult care homes aſter meeting the target of offering a test to every care home for over-65s and those with dementia in England by 6th June.
Since the launch of whole care home testing, the government has provided 1,071,103 test kits to 8,984 care homes, and it is now able to send out over 50,000 test kits a day.
To continue providing support for the sector and to tackle the further spread of the virus in social care, the government has set up a new taskforce, with representatives from across government and the care sector.
The new taskforce will help oversee the implementation of the government’s social care action plan and care home support package to help end transmission in the community and advise on a plan to support the sector through the next year.
Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock said: “From today all remaining adult care homes in England will be able
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to order the whole care home testing service for residents and staff. This service will benefit residents and staff in over 6,000 more care homes.
“It will mean that right across the care home sector everyone will have the certainty and confidence of a high quality coronavirus test, whether symptomatic or not, certainty about whether or not they’re carrying the virus and confidence that they are doing the right thing both to protect themselves and others.”
confined to their own homes. We could not let the selfless dedication, compassion and ingenuity of these frontline workers go unrecognised.”
She continued: “The Triumph Over Adversity Award is an exceptional award for exceptional times and our way of saying thank you to all our colleagues for their outstanding response to this period of national crisis. We’re very, very proud of the care catering sector.”
The Triumph Over Adversity Award will be announced, along with the other eight NACC Awards, later in the year.
The NACC Awards 2020 nominations are open to members of the NACC. The nomination brochure with full category details and entry requirements can be downloaded here.
www.thenacc.co.uk
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