FORMER director of Adult and Community Services for Wiltshire County Council, Dr Ray Jones, has been appointed to a new role.
He is the new professor of social work at at the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, run jointly by Kingston University and St George's, University of London.
In his new role, Dr Jones will take the lead in developing, delivering and disseminating research in social work and social care for children and families and for disabled and older people.
He said: "The faculty is already well known as a major player in undergraduate and postgraduate professional education and post-qualifying development programmes as well as having a flourishing research programme.
"I am eager to play a key role in boosting its research capacity even further."
Highly respected in social work circles, Dr Jones has amassed an array of accolades in a career spanning four decades.
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He has served both as Director of Social Services and, more recently, Director of Adult and Community Services for Wiltshire County Council, steering the authority to a top three star rating for its adult service provision in 2005 and a beacon award for its modernisation of learning disability services in 2006.
Posted by: moonrakin_wurzel, Trowbridge on 2:26pm Wed 21 May 08
"Adult & Community Services" wazzat then?
It would seem that local government spends far too much time dreaming up inscrutible, opaque and meaningless job titles .......
"Adult & Community Services" wazzat then?
It would seem that local government spends far too much time dreaming up inscrutible, opaque and meaningless job titles .......
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