Care UK retains Care Catering Award title for third year

Care UK colleagues are celebrating after winning the Public Sector Catering Award’s Care Catering category for the third year in a row. The Public Sector Catering Awards celebrate winners across the sector from education, healthcare and care homes to prisons, universities, the armed forces and catering colleges. The nominees gathered together in London on 24th April as the winners were announced.

Care UK supports its chefs and kitchen teams across 163 homes to deliver delicious, high-quality meals that allow each and every resident to dine with dignity regardless of their dietary requirements. On admission, chefs sit down with residents and their loved ones to discuss their preferences and any allergies or intolerances. Regular communication with all residents in Care UK homes means that residents have input into regularly changing menus, and all their culinary wishes and needs are taken into consideration.

Chefs at Care UK are supported to develop – whether this is training in modified diets, progressing an apprenticeship with the nationally-renowned Care UK Chef Academy, to being given free rein to run their own original events, like round-the-world food tasting days, which are popular with residents and colleagues alike.

One of the many initiatives that impressed the judges is Care UK’s commitment to IDDSI training for colleagues and the re-imagining of both modified food and drink to ensure residents’ specific requirements are supported during mealtimes. This focus on food inclusivity included improving thickened fluids – such as the recent creation of Next Level Tea in partnership with Tea from the Manor - and addressing the stigma of traditional ‘diabetic diets’.

Speaking on winning the award, Jon Bicknell, Director of Food and Hotel Services said: “I am delighted that Care UK has won this award for the third consecutive year. Care UK has invested heavily in colleague training programmes, hospitality facilities and continues to purchase excellent produce, ensuring residents have food that looks and tastes as one would expect from good hospitality, but that also provides the nutritional and hydration content to enhance their health and wellbeing.

“I am extremely proud of the catering teams here at Care UK, they truly go above and beyond to provide residents with the highest quality meals.”

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