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CATERING staff at a Nottingham school were celebrating after winning a major national award. Members of kitchen team at Hollygirt School, on Elm Avenue, were awarded a Silver CAP Award for their cooking and catering skills. The CAP (Continuous Advancement Programme) Awards recognise excellence in catering in education and are regarded as the highest measure…

THE CAP Awards, one of the healthcare industry’s leading measures of quality in housekeeping and catering, are unveiling their new awards scheme for 2015. The Awards, which are open to care homes across the UK and Ireland, are increasingly seen as THE badge of quality for catering and housekeeping services and are becoming ever more…

A terminally ill doctor made headlines after she launched the “Hello my name is…” campaign to encourage healthcare staff to introduce themselves to patients. Dr Kate Granger, a 31-year-old hospital consultant, started the campaign while she was being treated for cancer and was left frustrated by staff who failed to tell her their names. Now more than…

Last month the Your Care Rating survey of thousands of UK care homes – think Trip Advisor for social care – announced its results. The insightful research, based on the opinions of residents, gives a useful and honest snapshot of the state of the UK’s care homes. The ipsos/MORI study focused on four key criteria…

IT’S our mission at the CAP Awards to help our clients continually strive to be the best they can be in their housekeeping and catering departments. Often these teams can be the unsung heroes of the organisation and yet people would soon notice, and complain, if they weren’t performing at the best of their ability.…

Over the years some of UK’s leading independent schools have won a prestigious CAP (Continuous Advancement Programme) Award in recognition of their housekeeping and/or catering teams. Recent winners include Roedean Girls’ School, Harrogate Ladies’ College, Stafford Grammar School, Bishop’s Stortford College, Oakham School and Hollygirt School. All of these schools would agree that winning either…

BRIGHTON’S Roedean School has topped an inspection of schools for housekeeping and cleanliness. The famous girls’ school was awarded a Gold CAP Award for its exceptional standards – receiving the highest score yet given to a school, following an unannounced inspection. This is the second year Roedean has won the Gold CAP Award, and even…

The next 12 months look set to be the busiest yet for the CAP Awards as more healthcare and education providers seek to improve their housekeeping and catering offerings. First class housekeeping and catering is absolutely vital to the smooth running of care homes, hospitals and schools – but their efforts can at times be…

The catering team at Bishop’s Stortford College have won a Gold CAP Award for the fourth year running – setting a new record for excellence. After recently achieving top marks from East Herts Council for Food Hygiene, the College, with 1370 pupils, is now the first in the UK to claim the top prize for…

With a late flurry of CAP Award Assessments being undertaken in November and December 2013, special mention should be made of the Housekeeping Team at Harrogate Ladies’ College. The outcome of an impressive visit saw the Housekeeping Team move to within fractions of the highest Housekeeping CAP Award score achieved. Our congratulations go to all…