• Rowan Hall - Dimensions
• Consensa Care Ltd - Consensa Care Ltd
• Carole Barker - Eden Enhanced,  Eden Supported Living
• Danielle Brook - Care Through the Millennium
• Darren Fleetham - Choice Support

Best Commissioner:

• Strategic Commissioning Team - North Lincolnshire Council
• Birmingham Joint Commissioning Team for LD and MH
• Shropshire Council and Shropshire County PCT Reablement Group - Shropshire Council and Shropshire County  
• Surrey Adult Social Care Commissioning Team - Surrey County Council
• Debbie Butcher - Plymouth City Council
  

Best Design & Construction Company:

• Anisha Grange Care Homes - Hallmark Care Homes Ltd
• Pozzoni LLP Architects
• Keith Drummond-Brassington - Nuttall Yarwood & Partners Chartered Architects
• Scurr Architects   
• Ken MacKenzie - Barchester Healthcare

Brain Injury Rehabilitation:

• Rachel Smith & Chris Cooper - Voyage
• Staff Team, Murdostoun Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre - The Huntercombe Group
• Sally Davis - Glenside Hospital for Neuro Rehabilitation
• Heather Barker, National Brain Injury Centre - St Andrew's
• Chandos Road Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit - Consensa Care Ltd

Care Home Provider:

• The Senior Management Team, The Lodge, Buckshaw Retirement - Hica group
• The Senior Care Team - Greensleeves Homes Trust
• The Management Team - Kingdom Homes Ltd
• Dawn Richmond-Turner, Halcyon Days Residential Home - Gold Care Homes
• Runwood Homes

Early Intervention & Prevention:

• Dianne Roberts - Eden Enhanced, Eden Supported Living
• Rebecca Pacy - Amethyst Partners Aspirations Group
• Mandie Moss & Nicolla Bishop - Coniston House

Homecare:

• Clare Jefferies   - Home Instead Senior Care Wimbledon & Kingston
• Zoe Elkins - The Good Care Group
• The Care Team - Home Instead Senior Care Barnet

Innovation:

• Lisa Hopkins - Dimensions and Ambitious about Autism
• Erika Smith & Sarah Shepherd, The Dene Hospital - Partnerships in Care
• Joanne Morris - Woodleigh Care
• Stewart Geddes - Hollybank Trust
• Peter Hirst - Advance Support

Investor of the Year:

• August Equity LLP
• GI Partners

Legal Adviser:

• Candice Blackwood and the BLP Healthcare Team - Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Eversheds
• CMS Cameron McKenna   

Personalisation:

• Steve Scown - Dimensions
• Urvi Patel - Voyage
• Amanda Pettitt & Team - Active Assistance
• Paul Hayes - Barchester Healthcare and Jill Eddlestone - CLEAR
• Options - South Yorkshire Housing Association

Special Education:

• Bill Whittle & Staff, Bladon House School, SENAD Group
• Priory Education Services   
• Chris Hoyle, Inscape House School - The Together Trust
• Alison Howard - Hollybank Trust

Supported Living:

• Paul Marriner & the Executive Team - Lifeways
• Birkdale Team - The Together Trust
• Kent Supported Living Team - Turning Point
• The Manor, Southampton - Golden Lane Housing

Training & Dissemination of Good Practice:

• The DSDC Education Team - Northern Ireland Dementia Services Development Centre
• Lyn Meehan - PJ Care
• Sarah Maguire and the Quality and Involvement Team - Choice Support
• Woodleigh Care

The winners of the 2012 Specialist Care Awards will be announced at a gala dinner on 15 March 2012 at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square.