'Why Probation Matters': 17th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture (audio)
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On 17 June 2014 Sue Hall (Chief Executive, West Yorkshire Probation Trust and Chair, Probation Chiefs Association) delivered the 17th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture entitled 'Why Probation Matters'.
This is the seventeenth of a series of annual memorial lectures given in the spirit of Bill McWilliams’s work. The Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture is supported by the Clarke Hall Fund, the Barrow Cadbury Trust and the late Hugh Sanders OBE. For more information about the lecture, please contact Mrs Joanne Garner, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, 01223 335360, jf225@cam.ac.uk Slides: http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/documents/why_probation_matters.pdf |
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| Created: | 2017-08-17 16:18 |
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Institute of Criminology
Cambridge Law: Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Mr D.J. Bates |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Abstract: | Sue Hall qualified as a probation officer in 1979 with her first job in Grimsby. Sue stayed with Humberside Probation Service for 20 years. She moved to West Yorkshire as Deputy Chief Officer in 2000 and has been a Chief Officer since 2004, working first in South Wales, then returning to West Yorkshire in 2005, where she is currently Chief Executive of the Trust. She received an OBE for services to probation in 2010.
Throughout her career Sue has been very committed to strengthening the profile of probation as a profession. She was a founder member of the Probation Chiefs Association and has been Chair since 2009. She has sought to raise professional concerns in relation to the government’s Transforming Rehabilitation Programme, giving evidence on a number of occasions to the Justice Select Committee. Sue is a transitional director of the newly launched independent Probation Institute, which aims to develop a strong probation profession across the public, voluntary and private sectors and to become a centre of excellence. She also has an interest in international probation and believes that probation in England and Wales has much to learn from developments in Europe and the rest of the world. She has been a member of the Board of the Confederation of European Probation (CEP) since 2010 and is currently Vice-President. She chaired the planning committee for the successful World Congress on Probation held in London in 2013. In July 2014, Sue will step down from her current post, following the dissolution of the West Yorkshire Probation Trust as part of the Transforming Rehabilitation Programme. Although she will be leaving the National Offender Management Service, she intends to continue supporting the development of the Probation Institute and promoting excellence in professional practice. |
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