Care home battle wins prestigious newspaper award
The Sunday Mail’s longfought campaign to ensure care home residents are never stopped from seeing their loved ones was recognised at the Scottish Press Awards.
Pol itical editor John Ferguson led our calls for Anne’s Law, which is now bei ng enshr ined in legislation by the Scottish Government.
Last Wednesday night he collected the prestigious Campaign of the Year award in recognition of the work which will make sure care home residents will never nev be left without visitors like they were during the coronavirus coro pandemic.
Anne’s A Law is named after afte 63-year-old dementia sufferer suff and former carer Anne Ann Duke, whose plight inspired insp the campaign.
Judges Ju recognised the Sunday Sun Mail’s campaign – supportedsu by the stories of ofou our readers who had also faced face a ban on visiting loved ones in care homes – had forced a change in the law and will have an impact right across the country.
Also at the Scottish Press Awards, Sunday Mail crime journalist Norman Silvester was handed the Lifetime Achievement Award. He’s had a 43-year career breaking the country’s biggest gangland and crime exclusives.
The Sunday Mail’s new chief reporter Hannah Rodger won Pol it ical Journalist of the Year for her work at The Herald.
Sunday Mail editor Lorna Hughes said: “I’m very proud that the judges have recognised our team. It proves, once again, that campaigning journalism, supported by real people telling their own stories, w il l have an impact at the very highest level of government and force decisions which change people’s lives.”