David Pearson

Sir David Charles Pearson, CBE, is a British social care administrator and former social worker. He has chaired the UK government's Social Care Sector COVID-19 Support Taskforce since 2020.

Early life and education David Charles Pearson was born in Gravesend, Kent. His father was a bank manager. He attended a nearby grammar school, where he was head boy and played cricket and rugby. He left with A-Levels in English and History. He credits the experiences of caring for his mentally grandmother as spurring him on to work with disadvantaged people. After finishing school, he spent a year as a community service volunteer at an intermediate treatment centre for young offenders in Corby, Northamptonshire. The course also involved completing the Certificate of Qualification in Social Work. Three years later, he became an approved social worker and a team manager. He was then Director of Adult Social Care between 2006 and 2019 He also covered for the office of Director for Corporate Services between 2008 and 2009, After stepping down in January 2019, he was succeeded as Corporate Director for Adult Social Care and Health by Melanie Brookes.

In 2016, Pearson was appointed to lead a sustainability and transformation plan for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, which lead to the creation of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS) in 2019. He became the ICS's inaugural chairman and will step down from the post in March 2021.

National government In June 2020, Pearson was appointed chairman of Social Care Sector Covid-19 Support Taskforce as part of the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. In 2019, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Social Science degree by Nottingham Trent University. He was knighted in the 2021 New Year Honours for "services to Health and Social Care Integration".