Following nearly 11 years of service in Ceredigion, Sue Darnbrook, Corporate Director at Ceredigion County Council, is today retiring.
Sue originates from the Welsh speaking community of Penycae at the top of Swansea valley. She attended Penycae Primary School and Maesydderwen Secondary School in Ystradgynlais. Sue trained and qualified as a teacher at Trinity College, Carmarthen, before starting to work in social care in 1980.
Starting her career in social work as a social worker assistant working for Powys County Council, Sue gained her social work qualification at Birmingham Polytechnic and remained working in the West Midlands for the following 25 years. She worked mainly within local authority settings but she also spent 5 years working in the voluntary sector for Barnardo’s. Sue was a social work practice teacher for many years in Worcestershire in the West Midlands. Sue has worked in local authorities at the extremes of both urban (Birmingham City Council) and rural (Powys County Council) settings. Sue gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management at Worcester University and commenced her managerial career in Worcestershire County Council in 1998. Sue has significant experience of working in partnership with Health and of managing within integrated services. She has a particular expertise of working within the areas of disability and safeguarding. Sue’s value base is placing citizens at the centre of the work of the social services department.
Sue returned to live and work in Wales in 2005, commencing work as a Shire Manager in Powys County Council. Since that time she was appointed by Ceredigion County Council to the post of Head of Adult Services; in 2016 was appointed the Strategic Director – Care, Protection & Lifestyle, and appointed a Corporate Director in April 2018.
Eifion Evans, Chief Executive of Ceredigion County Council thanked Sue for her loyal and dedicated service to the Council, “I wish Sue all the very best on her retirement. Her retirement brings with it a huge loss for the Council and the county and her company will be missed as a colleague and a friend. During the decade where Sue has been working in the Council, she has been instrumental in developing and being part of collaborative projects and working in partnership with others for the benefit of Ceredigion. We thank her greatly for this.
We wish Sue all the very best for a happy retirement. We hope she will enjoy her interests and time with her husband John, the family, and of course, being Mam-gu to Imogen and Izzidora.”
12/05/2020