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VR Awards Finalists Announced
The VRA is delighted to announce the finalists in this year's VR Awards which are sponsored by Shaw Trust. In the VR Practitioner category these are:
Alex Pugh, Unum
Andy Tyerman, Working Out Programme
Ross Whiteside, Work Ready
Our congratulations to all those who were nominated by their peers for this award. We were delighted to see nominations from both colleagues and customers and for both employees and independent practitioners.
In the VR Initiaitive catgory the finalists are:
National Cancer Survivorship Initiative VR Pilot and Evaluation - a partnership between the Department of Health and Macmillan Cancer Support
ProAbility -An Access to Work Pilot in the North West Region providing indepdendent, mentored vocational support to its customers who have mental distress
Working Out Programme, Community Head Injury Service, Aylesbury - a specialist brain injury vocational asseessment and rehabilitation programme.
Remploy's Mental Health Support Service. The service adopts a VR model to provide workplace support to help individuals with mental health conditions to retain their emplpyment and is funded through Access to Work.
VRA Chair Professor Andrew Frank said, "The judges were very impressed with the number and standard of the entries for both the pracitioner and initiative categories in this year's awards. I am personally delighted that we have seen so many examples highlighted of good practice in vocational rehabilitation in the UK and look forward to working with the individuals and organisations that have taken part to promote them further."
The winner of both awards will be anounced on 22nd May at the VRA 2012 Conference, Core Competencies in VR. Profiles of all the initiatives will be featured on this site over the coming months.