Winners

Here are the list of the winners of the Shine a Light Awards. More information about each winner will be available shorty.

Communication Friendly Award, Early Years
University of East Anglia (UEA): Marian Wilson, Sandra Edwards, Anne Meyer
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Communication Friendly Award, Primary Schools
Watercliffe Meadow School, Sheffield
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Communication Friendly Award, Secondary Schools
Preston Manor School, Wembley
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Team of the Year Award
The Play and Communication Team, Barking and Dagenham
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Team of the Year Award, Multi-agency Team of the Year
Early Year Teams Stoke on Trent City Council
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Team of the Year Award, SLT Team of the Year
Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service, Community Health Newham
Community Health Newham is part of the East London Foundation Trust
To find out more about the service please click here

Communication Strategy Award
Every Sheffield Child Articulate and Literate (ESCAL), Sheffield
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Commissioning Award
Worcestershire Council and NHS Worcestershire
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Young Person of the Year
Jack Marshall
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Employee Support Award
The Co-operative
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Hello Campaign Award
Bristol Hello Group
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Outstanding Achievement Award
Holly Tadman, to find out more about Holly please click here
Stoke Speaks Out, Stoke on Trent, to find out more please click here
Watercliffe Meadow School, Sheffield, to find out more please click here

Highly Commended

Communication Friendly Award, Early Years: Sunny Skies Day Nursery (West Bromwich, West Midlands) and Magdalen Gates Preschool (Norwich)

Communication Friendly Award, Primary Schools: Hookstone Chase School (Harrogate), Busill Jones School (Walsall, West Midlands) and Foley Park School (Kidderminster, Worcestershire)


Communication Friendly Award, Secondary Schools: St Hugh's Communication and Interaction Specialist College (Scunthorpe) and I CAN's Dawn House School (Nottinghamshire)

Team of the Year Award: Afasic Youth Project Team (North East London), 3 Swindon based Speech and Language Therapists and Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Team, The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (London)

Team of the Year Award, Multi-agency Team of the Year:  SLCN Group (Plymouth) and Communication Aids Referral Team (North and North East Lincolnshire)

Team of the Year Award, SLT Team of the Year: Moor House School Speech and Language Therapy Team (Oxted, Surrey) and Nottinghamshire Children's Centres Speech and Language Therapy Team

Communication Strategy Award: Stoke Speaks Out and Camden Local Authority / Whittington Health Speech and Language Therapy  Service 

Young Person of the Year: Rebecca Tyler and Angus Smith

Employee Support Award: Mencap

Hello Campaign Award: Community Children's Service (Cambridgeshire) and Tracy Spence, Speech and Language Advisory Teacher (Luton Council)

To read the official press release please click here.