Profile
With a background in the Probation Service in the early 1990s Maggie developed offender education provision across Inner London and subsequently spent five years as a senior policy adviser at the Youth Justice Board. She was responsible for the roll out of youth justice qualifications for 10,000 staff and inquiries into child custodial deaths and oversight of practice across YOTs in England and Wales.
Over recent years Maggie was Independent Chair of Safeguarding Children Boards, most notably Kent, Oxfordshire and Hampshire & Isle Wight, with oversight of local child protection services. She held a Ministerial appointment with the Parole Board for England and Wales till 2016, a quasi- judicial role with responsibility for the prison release of high risk offenders, and was a specialist chair for juvenile cases. Maggie has published 5 volumes relating to child protection and youth justice and worked across the UK and internationally to develop services.