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Local Government Association chief executive Brian Briscoe joined rock legend Mick Jagger in receiving a knighthood last week in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Briscoe has been LGA chief executive since it was established five years ago, and has a career in local government spanning 35 years, including six years as chief executive of Hertfordshire Council.

No fewer than seven social care-related professionals were awarded CBEs, including National Schizophrenia Fellowship chief executive Cliff Prior and professor of social work at the University of East Anglia June Thoburn.

OBEs went to more than 25 staff and volunteers who have dedicated their time to social care and racial integration, and particularly to services for children, people with learning difficulties and disabled people.

Among them were Fiona Clarke and Katharine Philbrick, joint co-ordinators of the charity for prisoners' children Kids VIP; co-founder of disability charity Kith & Kids, Maurice Collins; and chief executive of Connexions Cornwall and Devon, Jennifer Judge.

The list of MBEs included Somerset partnership mental health team manager Christopher Chambers, Portsmouth Council housing initiatives manager Helen Keats, Sheffield health visitor Joan MacFarlane, Stirling Council's director of community services Helen Munro, Nottinghamshire Council adoption team manager Margaret Staples, Lincolnshire youth worker Hilary Strong, and Essex Council home carer Gillian Tipton.

- For a full list of honours awarded to those working or volunteering in the social care sector, go to www.community-care.co.uk