17/11/09
Faculty social work professor is new chairman for child protection
Dr Ray Jones, Professor of Social Work in the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, has been appointed as the new chairman for Bristol's Safeguarding Children Board.
The Board is made up of organisations and people working together to promote children's welfare and keep them safe from harm, whether that is harm caused by abuse or neglect, or as a result of accidents, or issues such as bullying. It includes Bristol's Children and Young People's Services, the police, the probation service and the health services.
The appointment allows Dr Jones to use and contribute more than 40 years of experience of protecting children from harm and danger.
"As well as supporting and, when necessary, challenging local services, I will also have the privilege of working alongside those who day after day work to protect and safeguard children, sometimes confronted themselves with threat and intimidation," Dr Jones said.
Dr Jones is a regular contributor to the national press and professional magazines and was named as one of the top ten most influential social workers in the UK by the Independent on Sunday in 2002.
