Cascade Care Named Specialist Care Provider of the Year 2026
The results are officially in: Cascade Care has taken home the trophy for Specialist Care Provider of the Year (Small or Medium Group) at the National Care Awards 2026!
Following an unforgettable evening at the Park Plaza London Westminster Bridge on Friday 6 November, we are returning home with not just an award, but a profound sense of pride in what our community has accomplished together. Winning this national title is an extraordinary milestone that affirms everything we stand for: empowering individuals, championing rights-based support, and proving that specialist residential care and education can transform lives.
What Winning This Award Really Means
Receiving this national award is a significant milestone for our team, recognising the real-world impact of our daily support work. It highlights the progress of the individuals we support, from building self-advocacy and daily living skills to participating in key decisions about their care and reflects the dedication shown across our residential and educational settings every day.
Our sector often faces complex challenges, but recognition like this remind us of the power of getting care right:
It proves that investing deeply in proactive behavioural frameworks creates environments where people can truly thrive, not just exist.
It demonstrates that treating individuals as genuine equal partners in their own care plans isn't just an aspiration, it's the gold standard.
It confirms that setting ambitious, uncompromising standards across education, clinical support, and residential life leads to life-changing independence.
To be singled out by an independent panel of industry leaders among such esteemed finalists across the country is both humbling and deeply validating.
Thank You to Our Incredible Community
An achievement of this magnitude is never the work of one person. It is the result of a passionate, collaborative community working together with shared purpose.
A heartfelt thank you to:
Our Support Workers, Managers, Practitioners, and Teachers: For your patience, empathy, creativity, and tireless commitment day in and day out. You make our homes and schools true places of growth and belonging.
Our Residents and Their Families: For placing your trust in us and allowing us to be part of your lives
Our Local Authority and Healthcare Partners: For your ongoing collaboration, constructive challenge, and shared focus on raising the bar for specialist social care.
The Journey Continues
Bringing the Specialist Care Provider of the Year award back to Norfolk and East Yorkshire is an incredible way to celebrate 2026, but our mission never stops here.
This win gives our entire organisation renewed momentum as we look ahead to expanding our provisions, opening new homes and schools, and continuing to pioneer practices that put the people we support at the absolute centre of everything we do.
To everyone who cheered us on, supported our nominations, and believed in our ethos: this achievement belongs to all of us.