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The latest appointments in the social care sector:

Julie Ogley has taken up her new post at North East Lincolnshire Council as the new director of community care. Ogley, who began her career at Humberside Council as a social worker, was head-hunted from her position as assistant director of older people's services at Wirral Council. She will replace Mary Robertson who has been acting as interim director.

Remploy, Britain's largest employer of disabled people, has appointed Bob Warner as the new chief executive. Warner has been Remploy's finance director for the past two years.

Carol Tozer

Cornwall Council has appointed Carol Tozer as the new director of social services. Tozer, who is currently head of children and families services at Southampton Council, takes over from Nigel Druce, who left Cornwall in August after 17 years service. She takes up the post in January.

 

 

 

Martin Barnes is set to leave his post as director of the Child Poverty Action Group in the New Year and take up his new post as chief executive of DrugScope. At the same time, Judith Willetts, director of external affairs with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, will also join DrugScope as director of information and public affairs.

Ray Shostak, strategic adviser on education at the local government Improvement and Development Agency, has been appointed as a new director in the Treasury Public Services Directorate. Shostak, who was previously director of children, schools and families at Hertfordshire Council, takes up the role in December.

The Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association in Northern Ireland has elected Kate Boles as their new chairperson. Boles is a practising health visitor in Omagh.

Bal Chauhan took early retirement from his post as assistant director for adults for Coventry Council earlier this year. Chauhan has become chairperson of Coventry Alzheimer's Society and hopes to become a magistrate.

Diana Whitworth has resigned from her post as chief executive of Carers UK, the representative body of the UK’s six million carers. This follows substantial restructuring at the charity which has seen the loss, through redundancy, of three full-time and three part-time staff in a bid to cut costs.
Whitworth will stand down in December to be succeeded by Imelda Redmond, the present deputy chief executive in January.

Norman Tutt, Ealing Council’s executive director of housing and social services, is to retire after a long career in social care. Tutt came to Ealing more than 5 years ago when the social services department was placed on “special measures”.

John Newell

Care home operator Craegmoor Healthcare, has appointed John Newell as its new chief executive. Newell joined the company in the autumn of last year from the service industry and succeeds former chief executive Frank Richardson, who has led the organisation for the past seven years.

 

 

 

Gordon Pownall has been appointed as the new chief executive of The Assisted Living Foundation (ALF), the charity that supports children and adults with a disability as well as providing specialist respite support to family carers of older people with dementia.
Formerly the director of care services with ALF and a senior manager in the private sector Pownall took up his position on 1 November.

The new director of care services within the Department of Health is Antony Sheehan. His portfolio will include children’s services, older people’s care, disability, prison health and mental health.

The new director of UK service development for the British Red Cross is Virginia Beardshaw, who has been on secondment from the NHS since April last year.
Beardshaw’s previous role was director of modernisation at the London Regional Office where she led on the implementation of the NHS plan and NHS Modernisation and service improvement.

Linda McEnhill, head of family support at St Nicholas’ Hospice, Bury St Edmunds, and chairperson of the National Network for Palliative Care of People with Learning Disabilities, has been chosen to become an Associate Hambro Macmillan Fellow recognising her contribution in the field of care of people with cancer.

Coventry social services has appointed Lynda Bull as its new head of adults, and Derek Sleigh as its new head of policy and performance for social services. Bull joined the department earlier this year on secondment from Birmingham Council where she was a senior second tier officer in social services. Sleigh is currently seconded to the department from the Department of Health and the Audit Commission, and will now take up the post on a permanent basis.

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