New Year honours: Social care winners

By Corin Williams on January 2, 2009 in Community Care

The following people from social care and related fields received gongs in the New Year honours list for 2008.

KBE
* Nicholas Wyndham Partridge, chief executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust, for services to healthcare.

DBE
* Anne Elizabeth Owers, chief inspector of prisons, for services to the criminal justice system.

CBE
* John Coughlan, director of children’s services, Hampshire County Council, for services to local government.
* Shirley Cramer, Dyslexia Action chief executive, for services to education.
* Lucy Manuela de Groot, executive director of the Improvement and Development Agency, for services to education.
* John Christopher Freeman, director of children’s services, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, for services to local government.
* Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, for services to the welfare of prisoners.

OBE
* Catherine Susan Beswick, head of healthcare at Huntercombe Young Offender Institution, for services to healthcare.
* Joyce Margaret Catterick, for services to the Citizens’ Advice Bureau and to the community in West Yorkshire.
* Ronald Daniel, for voluntary service as chair of Victim Support Scotland.
* Katherine Ann Davies, strategic director of Nottinghamshire County Drug and Alcohol Action Team, for services to disadvantaged people.
* Duncan Fisher, chief executive of the Fatherhood Institute, for services to children.
* Kathleen Mary Gooding, for services to early years education as Senior Early Years Inspector.
* Professor Christopher John Heginbotham, lately chief executive of the Mental Health Act Commission, for services to healthcare.
* Melanie Henwood, vice-chair of the General Social Care Council, for services to social care.
* Christine Lenehan, director of the Council for Disabled Children, for services to disability issues.
* Kerry Ann Maxwell, chief executive of Whitehaven Community Trust, for services to young people.
* David St John O’Carroll, lately deputy branch head of Health and Social Care Regulation at the Department of Health.
* Julian Mark Piper, lately director of extended and integrated services at ContinYou, for services to children and young people.
* Fiona Ritchie, learning disability adviser at the Healthcare Commission, for services to vulnerable people.
* Lucy Elizabeth Sayce, chief executive of Radar, for services to disabled people.
* Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill, chief executive of Stonewall, for services to equality and diversity.
* Sian Caroline Vasey, director of the Ealing Centre for Independent Living, for services to disabled people.

MBE
* Clive Anthony Barber, manager of Reading YOI.
* Brenda Valerie Beach, founder of the Gateway Club, for services to people with learning disabilities.
* Carol Ann Burke, lately manager of Askham Grange YOI, for public and voluntary service.
* John Francis Carberry, regional development officer for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, for services to deaf people.
* Lynette Costello, co-founder of Mothers Against Murder and Aggression for services to vulnerable people.
* Dee Edwards, co-founder of Mothers Against Murder and Aggression for services to vulnerable people.
* Alan Cottle, head of strategic risk management at Surrey County Council, for services to children and young people with special needs.
* Thomas Creighton, chair of the Northern Health and Social Services Council, Northern Ireland, for services to social care.
* Dr John Elliston, founder member of the 700 Club, for voluntary service to vulnerable and homeless people.
* Arthur Aubrey Emerson, for voluntary service to Carers’ Group, Rethink, Sheffield.
* Godfrey Eugene Featherstone, lately director of the Kenward Trust, for services to disadvantaged people.
* Jenny Frank, programme manager for the Children’s Society Include Project, for services to young carers.
* Maureen Gordon, for services to social work and the voluntary sector in Northern Ireland.
* Kay Gould, lately manager of Adderley Children’s Centre in Birmingham, for services to children and families.
* Patricia Grindle, principal of Mitchell House Special School, for services to special needs education.
* Deborah Anne Hall, manager for Chigwell Riding Trust for Special Needs, for services to disabled people.
* Joeseph Heatley, Home Office special adviser on children’s services, for services to children and young people within the immigration system.
* Libby Jones, manager of New Pathways, for services to vulnerable people in Wales.
* Marilyn Sheila Lazarus for voluntary service to the Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill.
* Robina Elizabeth Mallett, family carer support officer for Home Farm Trust, for services to children and families.
* Ruby Marshall, chair of Hartlepool Carers, for services to children and families.
* Alice Patricia Middleton, founder of Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide, for services to vulnerable people.
* Maureen Tyler-Moore, principal of Independent Specialist College, Foxes Academy, for services to special needs education.
* Nora Oliver, chief executive of Burton Addition Centre, for services to disadvantaged people.
* Comfort Oppong, home manager for Anchor Homes, for services to older people.
* Sara Payne, co-advocate, Phoenix Trust, for services to child protection.
* Caroline and Robert Rejdak, foster carers, for services to children and families.
* Phyllis Freda Rose, for voluntary service to MIND.
* Elaine Rossall, for voluntary service to Home Start Newark.
* Kate Schroder, chief executive of 4sight, for services to visually impaired people.
* David George Gordon-Smith, chief executive officer, Orchard Trust, for services to people with learning difficulties.
* Joan Taylor, chair of Nottingham County Council and chair of the trustees of the Child Migrants Trust, for services to local government
* Tony Thornton, Salvation Army centre manager, for services to homeless people.
* Sheila Tyson, chair of the Grange-over-Sands and South Cumbria NSPCC, for voluntary service to children.
* The Reverend Canon Peter Vowles, for voluntary service to Victim Support.
* John Miles Westcott, chief executive of the Kingswood Foundation, for services to young people.
* Christopher Wilson, chair of the Redbridge Pensioners’ Forum, for services to older people.