social work award
TOP AWARD . . . a social worker with Dumfries and Galloway Council has won the Andrew Cornwell Memorial Award for the highest performing graduate in the Open UniversityÕs social work programme in Scotland. Laura McHarrie, of Stranraer, was presented with a certificate and book token at council headquarters in Dumfries by regional education manager for the Open University Rosanna Ware. She began as a social work assistant with the council's youth justice team and since achieving her BA Honours in social work, Laura has taken up a post in criminal justice, based in Stranraer
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