25 April 2025
SCIE is proud to announce the launch of our first-ever Social Care Impact Awards. These awards will identify, recognise, and reward small organisations doing exceptional work in social care.
SCIE is a not-for-profit, independent, and impartial charity driven by improving social care for adults and children. By launching our Social Care Impact Awards, we hope to support those organisations that would not ordinarily have the budget available to commission our services.
There are dozens of prizes available—ranging from seventeen days of SCIE consultancy and training support to spaces on SCIE training courses.
The awards are open to organisations with annual incomes up to £100,000. The simple application process invites organisations to submit 300 words, a 2-minute video, or a 2-minute voice note explaining why they should be considered for a Social Care Impact Award.
If you’re part of a small organisation trying to make a big difference, we want to hear from you. For more details on how to create and submit an entry, please visit our website.
The deadline for entries is 9am, Wednesday 28 May 2025. Winners will be notified by 20 June, with first and second prize recipients invited to an awards event in London on 2 July 2025.
Kathryn Smith OBE, SCIE’s Chief Executive said:
SCIE’s vision is for a society which enables people who draw on social care to live fulfilling lives, and the Social Care Impact Awards are about acknowledging, celebrating, and supporting the organisations that embody this vision through their values, passion, and hard work.
We believe that, in the face of significant and critical challenges, the commitment and dedication of the social care sector has never been in greater need of commemoration.
The Social Care Impact Awards are one way we are recognising this need. They will allow us to showcase excellence, support best practice, and share key insights—and, perhaps most importantly, build on the partnerships that already exist across the sector.
Kathryn Smith OBE
Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
Additional information
SCIE has worked with EY on a pro-bono basis for some of the planning and design of our Social Care Impact Awards. We are grateful for their support and EY is proud to play a small role supporting innovation and best practice in social care.
Notes to editors
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) improves the lives of people of all ages by co-producing, sharing, and supporting the use of the best available knowledge and evidence about what works in practice. We are a leading social care improvement independent charity working with organisations that support adults, families and children across the UK. We also work closely with related services such as health care and housing. We improve the quality of care and support services for adults and children by:
- Identifying and sharing knowledge about what works and what’s new.
- Supporting people who plan, commission, deliver and use services to put that knowledge into practice.
- Informing, influencing and inspiring the direction of future practice and policy.
Our mission is to support best practice, shape policy and raise awareness of the importance of social care, working together. With the government’s ambition of reducing consultancy bills, SCIE can serve as the not-for-profit partner of government, working collaboratively to identify and implement improvements.
If you have any questions regarding this submission, please do not hesitate to contact media@scie.org.uk