Retired from F/T paid work but still doing interesting things and available for S/T projects while spending more time with the community

Forty years old in 2022, Prama was founded to give easy access to support and has flourished as a broad domiciliary care provider and a community support agency for (particularly) people living with dementia and their family and support network. Christian by nature - home for believers but welcoming everyone. Influential in helping BCP to become an age friendly community!

Keychange are a residential provider driven by Christian ethos and practice. It retains the not in of community in residential settings, now lost in many other places. Also provides two housing units for younger people. Chair of Quality and Safety Working Group

Working with service users with MH issues in seven sites around the area. The charity is uniquely focused on SU involvement and control

The journal seeks articles from researchers and practitioners around the world, that develops arguments about excellence in the management of care and health practice, innovation for the future and reflection on current situations. Articles are peer reviewed - interested writers should visit the website www.maneypublishing.com/index.php/journals/csm/The Journal is seeking a new editor with closer ties to academia for my university based links!

Social Care Association and Social Care Association (Education) were respectively a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity which have separate governance systems with the first being a member of the second. Acting as Chief Executive and Company Secretary to both, ensuring compliance with Companies House and Charity Commission requirements, submitting required returns accurately and on time.Consultant in the development of the SCIE/College of Social Work SW Capability FrameworkIndividual work with service users Member of government policy groups on a range of issues. Writer, commentator and speaker on social work and social policy - Invited to be Spokesperson by BBC News 24 and local news programmes. Guest edited Journal of Care services Management in 2009 for a special issue on Personalisation meeting all requirements on time and attracting enough interest for material to go into three later editions - Now Editor of the same journalDeveloped Social Care practice Handbook and Topics of Concern papers for front line staff to raise levels of professionalism among social care staff, provide guidance and raise the profile of the organisation.

I was responsible for the Adult Social Care function of the Council both commissioning and provision when a good deal was still council owned and recovered the budget deficit over eighteen months from £1m to £100k. LB Sutton was an impressive council and ahead of the curve on its work with disabled people and on matters like safeguarding

Population 180k, budget £20 million, 800 staff, 2000+ service users, managing day, residential, domiciliary care for all adult client groups, plus commissioning in 1993-6 and 98-9. Key issues of budget management, change management, significant employment relations work and creating innovative disability projects, including cutting edge policy development and service user controlled services.