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Dr Ray Jones is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at Kingston University and St. George’s, University of London, and has over 50 years’ experience as a social work practitioner, manager, teacher and researcher.
From 1992 to 2006 he was Director of Social Services in Wiltshire. He was the first Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and has been deputy chair and chair of the British Association of Social Workers.
Ray is the author of eight books, including The Story of Baby P: Setting the Record Straight, In Whose Interest? The Privatisation of Child Protection and Social Work and A History of the Personal Social Services in England, and in 2017 he received the Social Worker of the Year Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Social Work’.
“It is a tremendous privilege to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of East Anglia. To receive recognition from peers and a university which is rightly much respected is a special honour. UEA is at the forefront of social work education and has an international reputation for its research on social work with children and families. I am delighted to now have this association with the university.”