A PROJECT launched by Paisley’s Kibble education and care centre has been nominated for a social services ‘Oscar’.
The Men Can Care project is one of three finalists in the Care Accolades 2004 awards category for the Most Innovative Training Programme.
And one of the men on the training programme has also been short-listed for the Future Worker award.
Derek Kirkwood had to submit an essay on how thought he could make a difference to social care.
The Men Can Care project was set up by Kibble to encourage more men to become child and youth care workers. Earlier this year the project recruited 34 men to join a 39-week training and work experience programme.
The Men Can Care team will find out on Wednesday, June 16 at a gala lunch, in Edinburgh if they have been successful in being voted outright winners.
Neil McMillan, Men Can Care Project manager said: “The fact we have been nominated in these categories is tribute to the excellent concept of our programme and the hard work put in by all the staff and men being trained on the project.
“Whatever the outcome of the awards ceremony, I am sure the men on the programme will all be winners at the end of the day. They will hopefully find jobs in the care sector and organisations that look after young people will have a well-trained group of men able to contribute to the welfare of those young people.”