NEWS HR

Churchill has appointed James Barnes as its regional managing director for the South West.

A hearing into charges against a former Bishopton-based secure unit worker is due to take place next week. Erika King is alleged to have committed a series of breaches between June 2010 to October 2013. The Scottish Social Services Council’s conduct sub-committee will meet to consider the allegations on Monday, February 6 and Tuesday, February 7.

Birmingham’s social services chief is to retire after 14 years with the city council. Strategic director Peter Hay has run social care services for the elderly and disabled since 2003 and has had two periods in charge of children’s services from 2003 to 2005 and since 2013. Mr Hay will step down as strategic director at the end of March and spend three months working on some specific research projects for the council before retiring in July.

A former GP and director of public health medicine Anne Wright has been appointed to the board of directors at Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

McCarthy & Stone has appointed Jonathan Fair as its new managing director in Scotland and Lorraine Paterson as sales & marketing director.

Two clinical commissioning groups in Staffordshire have appointed a matron on a temporary basis to work with 20 local care homes in order to help reduce avoidable hospital admissions.

One Housing’s long-standing chief executive, Mick Sweeney, is stepping down after 30 years at the helm.

Dunedin Canmore has appointed Alan Glasgow as its new housing director.