Greater Manchester Probation Trust

Probation Trust Board and Members

Greater Manchester Probation Trust Board

The Trust is led by the Greater Manchester Probation Trust Board which is responsible to the Secretary of State for Justice for performance within national guidelines.

The Trust Board has nine members and three advisers to the Board who are representatives of the local community in Greater Manchester.

The Board meets once a month at present.                 

Board members are kept well informed and receive regular performance and financial information about the work of the service.

On a day-to-day basis, the Board's responsibilities are delegated to the Chief Executive, who is responsible for the delivery of services

Greater Manchester Probation Trust Board

Chair : Hilary Tucker  

Dr. Tucker was previously a Board member in Cheshire Probation Area, between 2001 -2007, where she led on performance improvement and offender management programmes and was very involved in audit work. Professionally, Hilary’s background is in education. Having started her career as a teacher, she spent her early working life as a higher education lecturer in sociology and in teacher education. Before retiring from full time work, she was the Principal of the further and higher education college in Warrington which had an establishment of 14, 000 students. The college had learning facilities in 81 locations, which Hilary helped to build up through productive partnership working. Hilary has previous connections with Manchester too, she was a member of Manchester University's Senate and its sub-committees over many years. She also now works on an occasional basis for the NHS, assessing doctors’ performance. She recently retired as a Council Member of  the University of Chester and on her retirement was awarded by the university an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of her outstanding contribution to education. She is also a trustee for a charity offering holidays and retreats to educational, social and family groups in need of a break. Hilary is a practising Quaker.

Viv Carter
(Adviser to the Board)
 
Viv joined the Board in 2007. She began her working life as a teacher of Home Economics, later taking employment, as a Home Economist with British Coal and later, British Gas. She was appointed a magistrate in 1974 and has served as chairman of the Youth Court and, later spent 6 years as Bench Chairman. During her time as chair of the youth panel, it was discovered that the vast majority of the young offenders appearing before the magistrates were not on a school register. The overwhelming feeling was that something “should be done”, so Viv led a team which eventually set up a local charity to deal with disaffected and excluded young people – 10 years later, she continues to chair this charity and regards it as one of her passions, along with her family and foreign travel. In 2007 Viv was awarded an MBE.

Gita Conn OBE

With a career in print journalism and TV production, Gita worked first as a Researcher, then as Producer and Director at BBC TV's Network Features Department in Manchester on programmes like Brass Tacks, The Travel Show, The Family Rules etc.

 

Appointed to the Salford Bench in 1976, her special interest in the Family Proceedings Court gave her the background knowledge to produce and direct 'Child Wars' in the Heart of the Matter series for the BBC.

 

Her concern for the problems faced by children when their parents split up led to the founding of the Salford Child Contact Centre and, subsequently, Pro-Contact – Expert Services for Separated Families. She was awarded an OBE for her services in this innovative field in 2004. She has served as a Non-Executive Director on the Central Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel and  OFCOM's Advisory Committee for England.

 

A graduate of Manchester University, she attained a Post Graduate Diploma in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from Oxford University in 1998.

 

Gita is currently Chair of Menorah Synagogue: Cheshire Reform Congregation.

 
Roz Hamilton
 
Roz is Chief Executive of Greater Manchester Probation Trust. She qualified as a probation officer in 1981 and began her career in Manchester, specialising in supervising young offenders and those who presented a high risk of committing more crime. Roz was appointed as a senior probation officer in 1991 and five years later became the district manager for Tameside.  Latterly she was one of the Trust’s deputy chief executives. She was appointed Chief Executive in February 2011. Roz is a great proponent of partnership working with all sectors. She is an officer on the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) Public Protection Commission. She is also Deputy Chair for the Greater Manchester Local Criminal Justice Board (LCJB). She has worked for the Trust for more than 30 years and has seen it develop immeasurably during that period. Her passion is to see GMPT continually improve its performance.
 

Judge Tony Gee QC

Tony was born in Blackpool but his father’s job took the family around the country. He was educated in Cambridge, Chester and London and called to the Bar in 1972. He took silk on appointment as Queen’s Counsel in 1990. Of his 35 years in practice most of his work has been in crime, prosecuting or defending and dealing with cases of real gravity. He has always practised in Manchester and other centres on the Northern Circuit. In April 2004 he was appointed as a Circuit Judge based in Crown Square, Manchester. He is married with three children (now fully or partly fledged) and lives in south Manchester. Hobbies include playing golf, tennis, fly-fishing, walking in the Lake District and watching cricket.

Peter Henson

Peter joined the Board in May 2009, and is Chair of the Audit Committee. Born in Salford, he began his career in engineering, completing a four-year apprenticeship before enlisting for three years in the army. In 1979 he left the army and began a career with Greater Manchester Police during which time he served in many varied roles and duties. While stationed on the South Manchester division he was appointed as Chair of the Local Action Partnership for Chorlton. During this time he was a key figure in promoting initiatives to tackle both race and hate crime and had considerable success ensuring partnership working between the police and Youth Offending Teams. Prior to retirement from the police service he served for four years as a full time Federation Officer and Treasurer to Greater Manchester Police Federation and assisted officers and the force as an adviser on both discipline and equal opportunity matters. He is currently the Honorary Treasurer for two police charities, firstly, the Police Treatment Centre based in Harrogate and Auchterarder, Scotland, which provides rest, recuperation and intensive physiotherapy to ill and injured police officers, and secondly, the St George's Police Trust which provides support to the children of police officers who have died or are so incapacitated they are unable to work. He is also a director and former treasurer of a large industrial Credit Union. Married with two daughters and three grandsons, his hobbies include keeping fit, squash, DIY and spending quality time with his family.

Michael Hyman
(Adviser to the Board)
 

Michael's connection with the Board began in 2006. Leaving Manchester University with a degree in Economics and Social Studies, he pursued a career in business, including designing business systems, national sales and general management. Michael runs a mail order business that supplies specialist textile and paper conservation materials to museums and the public. With a keen interest in criminal justice, Michael became a Magistrate in 1999, sits in both adult and youth courts and is a past Chairman of the Trafford Bench. Serving on the Greater Manchester Police Authority between 2002 and 2008, Michael led for the Authority on police complaints, stop & search and race issues. He has been a member of the Jewish Representative Council for Greater Manchester since 2004. He was elected a Councillor on Trafford Council in 2010 and is Chairman of the Community Wellbeing Select Committee. Interests include classical music and blues / jazz and walking, preferably in the Yorkshire Dales or the Lake District. A retired class 2 football referee, Michael has enjoyed (most of the time) watching Leeds United for over 40 years! He is married with two sons.

Nasrullah Khan Moghal

Khan is the Chief Executive of Manchester Council for Community Relations (MCCR). As Chief Executive, he plays a key role in voicing the aspirations and needs of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities at local, regional, national and European levels. As such he is a familiar face at international events as well as in print and electronic media. He has worked to tackle institutional racism alongside organisations such as the Police and other local Councils. Khan is the Director of the South Manchester Law Centre and Honorary Secretary of the Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership, The Manchester Partnership Agenda 2010 partnership - a 10 year programme of improving race relations in Manchester. He is a member of the Policy Advisory Committee of Greater Manchester Police Race & Diversity Working Group. He has also been a board member of the European Union Migrants Forum and served as a Vice President for two years. A University of Manchester graduate (1970) Khan also has a Diploma in Race and Community Relations from the University of Liverpool (1996). He is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Certificate in Quality Assurance Auditing.

Emily Lam
(Adviser to the Board)
 

Emily joined Manchester City Magistrates' Court in 1998 as a Lay Magistrate and regularly sits in both Adult and Youth Courts. She is Lead Member for Diversity and Police Stop/Search for Cheshire Police Authority. From 1994 - 2003 she was an Education Consultant running a counselling and recruitment service for overseas pupils to independent boarding schools in the UK. A Registered General Nurse, Midwife and Health Visitor Emily has a BA (Honours) degree in Psychology. Her experience includes research, her role as Chair of a District-wide Nursing Policy Group in Liverpool, and Nursing Officer at the Department of Health for Practice Developments. She has an interest in performance measurement, service standards and continuous quality improvement, particularly from the consumer perspective. Over the years, she has worked in the voluntary sector and also acted as an overseas guardian to many young people attending boarding schools in UK. In her spare time she likes hill walking.

Councillor Syd Lloyd

Syd joined the Probation Trust Board in May 2009. He is an elected Councillor serving on Stockport MBC. He is also the current Conservative Group Leader on Stockport Council. At the end of 2008 he took early retirement and sold his Commercial Refrigeration business which he had built up over the past 15 years. Syd is the Vice Chair of Governors at Harrytown Catholic High School in Romiley and is also a local authority appointed Governor at Romiley Primary School. In 2000 Syd was appointed to the Greater Manchester Police Authority as an Independent Member. During his 3 year term he served as the Chair of the Standards Committee and as Chair of the Minority Ethnic working party. He was also the Lead Member representing the Police Authority when the Oldham riots took place. Syd enjoys watching most sports but now spends most of his spare time working in his constituency on community projects and dealing with residents' problems, generated through his work as a Councillor. He enjoys his work for the Probation Trust and is responsible for oversight on both the Stockport & Wigan Local Delivery Units as well as the Trust premises, Health & Safety and also for Offender Programmes.

Abdul Malik Ahad

Abdul Joined the Board in May 2009.  Abdul, 36, was born in Bangladesh and arrived in the UK on a very cold day in 1979. He has since resided in Oldham, but worked throughout Greater Manchester and UK.

Inspired by his late father’s community work, Abdul has a passion for work to improve people’s lives, especially those that are disadvantaged. This dedication saw him working since the age of 16 for public authorities and voluntary groups ranging from arts to education, regeneration, and housing.Concluding his role as co-ordinator for a North West voluntary sector network, in 2001 following the disturbances in Oldham, Abdul was appointed as Community Cohesion Manager for the Council’s Housing Arms Length Management Organisation, where he quickly developed award winning initiatives on inclusion and equality. In 2002, he became Deputy Director there with responsibility for performance, marketing/communications, ICT, and diversity. In 2007 Abdul set up a small company, Capital Consult Group, which he runs providing consultancy and training solutions to public and voluntary sector agencies. He has served as board director at various charities, and is currently the chairperson of a leading young people’s theatre company in the Greater Manchester region, Peshkar Productions, where he was earlier a participant at the age of 17. Abdul is also a non-Executive Director at NHS Oldham. He is currently concluding his MBA, and holds diplomas in Management, Performance Management, and Coaching. Abdul is married with three children. His passions are current affairs, arts/culture, travelling, international development, and his family.

Coren Williams 

Coren has been a Human Resources professional for over 20 years. She has worked for a number of years in local government, and now works as Associate Director of Human Resources within the NHS. Coren is passionate about working with young people and is active within the local community of Trafford and Manchester. She has been a youth worker, and worked with young people from a range of backgrounds. She is the chair of Beacon Community Centre, an organisation which liaises with other agencies to deliver educational and social activities to the Trafford community.
 
Coren is a licensed trainer with The Springboard Consultancy, which is an international organisation specialising in personal development. Coren is married with three children and for relaxation she enjoys holidaying with her family in exotic places, and has visited a number of the Caribbean islands.  
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