My grandmother Pauline Davison, who has died aged 86 of lung cancer, trained as a social worker after her youngest child started school and worked with children and families, first in Lewisham, south-east London, then in rural Cambridgeshire.
Following a period in the social work training department of Cambridgeshire county council in the 1990s she worked for three years in a hospice and then as a social worker at Papworth hospital. She was one of the first volunteers to be trained for the Cambridge Mediation Service, which helps warring neighbours resolve their disputes.
