Membership of the Review Group
Steve Hall | Tom Wheatley | Ian Mullholland | Denise White | Ian Wardle | Mike Trace | Adam Sampson | Dr Michael Farrell | Dr Linda Harris | Sarah Forrest | Kate Davies (OBE) | Manjit Singh Johal | Professor Antony Sheehan | Professor Michael Gossop | Alan Dalton | Viv Ahmun | Julia Hodson
Steve Hall
Governor HMP Styal (Cheshire)
HMP Styal is the only female establishment in the North West. Styal experienced six self-inflicted deaths over a 12-month period in 2002/03 – all among women within the first month of custody. Steve Hall, whose tenure at Styal began soon after the last of these deaths, has introduced a raft of new measures which has resulted in dramatically reducing the number of prisoners self-harming during their first 48 hours in custody and has had a positive effect throughout the entire prison. The 'First Night Centre', for example, was highlighted as best practice in a report published by the Howard League in 2006. The unit provides support for women during their first 48 hours in custody and includes access to healthcare, probation and other agencies within the prison. It is the Governor’s aim that future development plans take into account the unique needs of women in custody and allow Styal to achieve it's goal – to be the ‘best women's community prison'.
Tom Wheatley
Governor HMP YOI Moorlands (Doncaster)
Tom Wheatley is Governor of HMP Moorlands, which houses adult male prisoners and young offenders. The education block and the staff have been cited as doing particularly impressive work helping prisoners find some self esteem and a way out of crime. Tom Wheatley has been working for the prison service since 1994. He has previously worked at HMP Hull, HMP Full Sutton near York, in HM Prison Service HQ, HMP Ranby and most recently he was Governor at HMP Nottingham. Whilst at HMP Full Sutton, he was responsible for the Security, Operations and the Special Secure Unit, which holds Exceptional Risk Category A prisoners. As the Governor of HMP Nottingham, he was also a member of the Nottinghamshire Criminal Justice Board, which focused on increasing the number of offences brought to justice and increasing confidence in the criminal justice system by making it more responsive to victims and witnesses needs.
Ian Mulholland
Governor HMP Wandsworth (London)
Ian Mulholland was previously Governor of HMP Exeter where he instituted a number of initiatives including developing a First Night in Custody scheme, which made a significant contribution in reducing the risk of suicide and self-harm amongst the men who arrived at the prison. HMP Wandsworth is the biggest jail in Europe. Wandsworth is regarded as overcoming many failures and its Governor, Ian Mulholland is viewed as - against great odds - turning round this chaotic prison. A large percentage of prisoners are from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups and monitoring showed both a disproportionate use of force and time in the segregation unit for prisoners from BME backgrounds. To tackle the issue, Ian Mulholland established a diversity team of four including a senior manager, a Principal Officer and two Senior Officers, and Prison Officers received enhanced training to help them work with both Foreign National prisoners and those from BME communities. He has also greatly improve the availability of activities and training within the prison, and has instigated the development of a job centre club full of computers, new links with industry, City and Guilds courses and a motorcycle workshop.
Denise White
Chief Probation Officer Derbyshire
Denise White has been Chief Officer of Derbyshire Probation Area since 2005. Prior to that, she worked for Greater Manchester Probation for over 25 years, holding a wide variety of roles as both practitioner and manager before becoming an Assistant Chief Officer in 1999. Denise White was Chair of the Derbyshire Criminal Justice Board in 2007/09. Denise White has a particular interest in public protection issues. She has been a member of the Parole Board since 2006.
Ian Wardle
CEO of Lifeline
Ian Wardle has been CEO of Lifeline for 16 years. Lifeline is a Third Sector agency that provides a range of drug and alcohol services for adults and young people. Founded in 1971, Lifeline has a strong commitment to rehabilitation and recovery as well as to harm reduction and treatment and seeks to find appropriate ways of supporting all effective, mutual aid and community-based responses to addiction. Lifeline’s services are spread across the North West, London, Yorkshire and the North East. Lifeline has worked in close partnership with the Prison Service since 1995. Ian Wardle was a member of the NICE guideline group on psychosocial interventions (2007), a member of the Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management Group, (2007) and a member of the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1971, (1999).
Mike Trace
CEO of RAPt
Mike Trace is the CEO of the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt). This is one of the country’s largest providers of drug treatment services in the UK prison system. RAPt is a Third Sector agency which helps people with drug and alcohol problems move towards, and maintain drug and crime-free lives. RAPt also delivers treatment and aftercare for ex-offenders, and for people referred from outside the criminal justice system. Mike Trace was recently on the Expert Panel of the Price Waterhouse Coopers report on the ‘Review of Prison-Based Drug Treatment Funding’.
Adam Sampson
CEO of Shelter
Adam Sampson has been chief executive of Shelter since January 2003. Adam Sampson has worked in the criminal justice system, first as a probation officer and then as deputy director of the Prison Reform Trust. He worked directly with homeless people in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1994, he joined the Home Office as assistant prisons ombudsman. He is a board member of a number of charities and public bodies, including End Child Poverty, the Prisoners Advice Service, and the Royal Society for the Arts. He is a commissioner on the UK Drugs Policy Commission.
Dr Michael Farrell
Senior Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist at the National Addiction Centre (NAC), Institute of Psychiatry, London
Dr Michael Farrell has extensive research experience in the social and epidemiological aspects of addictions and is an international authority on the research/evidence-base on drug issues in prison. He is a co-founder and editor of the Cochrane Collaboration Drug and Alcohol Group and is a member of the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence at the World Health Organisation. He is currently the Chair of the Faculty of Addiction at The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Dr Farrell and the NAC have recently been awarded the contract by the Department of Health to carry the quantitative evaluation of the Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS) in prisons.
Dr Linda Harris
General Practitioner
Dr Linda Harris works within two prisons, HMP New Hall and HMP Wakefield, and is responsible for all drug treatment clinical practises within the 106-bedded women’s Substance Misuse Unit at New Hall. Dr Harris has a national role as the Director of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Substance Misuse Unit, which coordinates an accredited training programme for practitioners in primary care substance misuse and runs the dedicated secure environments training course as part of the IDTS in prisons. Dr Harris has supported NHS Wakefield District PCT as a member of the Professional Executive Committee for over four years, promoting health inequalities and mental health issues and for ten years prior to her current role, was a local GP at Homestead practice in Wakefield. A course trainer in substance misuse for GP registrars and Specialist Registrars in general adult psychiatry her special areas of interest are criminal justice drug treatment, integrated prison health care and social enterprise.
Sarah Forrest
PCT Prison Commissioner South Staffordshire
There are six prisons in South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust ( SSPCT) with a population of 3,500 – 4,000 prisoners, including men, women and young offenders (HMP Stafford, Featherstone, Dovegate, Drake Hall and YOIs Brinsford and Swinfen Hall). Sarah Forrest is responsible for commissioning a wide range of health care services for these prisons and has been working in partnership with the local DAAT since 2006/7 to commission prison substance misuse services. SSPCT currently have 4 prisons within the IDTS programme, with a possible further 2 joining in 2009/10. Sarah Forrest is the Lead Officer on the Prison Health Partnership Board, which is made up of Prison Governors and PCT representatives. The Partnership Board has developed into an effective partnership and an enormous amount of work has gone into improving health care in prisons. In addition Sarah provides strategic commissioning support to NHS North Staffordshire in relation to YOI Werrington and is working with DH on the development of healthcare services for a planned new prison on the outskirts of Wolverhampton.
Kate Davies (OBE)
Commissioner & Drug Action Team Strategic Director
Kate was the Strategic Director of Nottinghamshire County Drug and Alcohol Action Team from December 1995 to May 2009, co-ordinating and delivering the Government’s National Drug Strategy in Nottinghamshire County and responsible for commissioning Criminal Justice, Adult and Young People’s Treatment Services. She has been the lead in “gender specific” services and work with “Young People’s specific treatment”, provision including focus on working with young offenders, young travellers and young people in rural and ex-mining communities. She has worked in the substance misuse treatment field both in the City and rural communities and has also worked in the Probation Service as a qualified Probation Officer since the late 1980’s. Kate joined the University of Central Lancashire: Centre for Ethnicity and Health as Director of Community Engagement in September 2003. As a Senior Manager of Community Engagement at the International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusions (ISCRI), Kate has lead the alignment of the 9 Government Regions to ensure sustainability of the Black and Minority Substance Misuse Community Engagement Projects, across the U.K. with the University of Central Lancashire. Kate is also a Non-Executive Director on the National Treatment Agency Board. Kate has been one of the Non-Executive Directors of the National Treatment Agency since July 2001 appointed by the Secretary of State. She is a Trustee of a national charity called “MoMo Helps” a national charity set up by Mo Mowlam, to provide easy access to fund and plug the gaps for those families who are identified as in need. Kate received an OBE in the 2009 new years honours list for her work with disadvantaged people. Kate was appointed as Assistant Director for Equality and Diversity at NHS Nottinghamshire PCT in March 2009, leading the development and implementation of strategies that will deliver measurable improvements in services and workforce equality across Nottinghamshire county.
Manjit Singh Johal
User and Carer Involvement Coordinator, Greenwich DAAT
Manjit Singh Johal is an ex-drug user. Manjit, with other ex-drug users, set up a self-help group for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) users, called BAC-IN (Black and Asian Cultural Identification in Nottingham) in 2004 as a forum to share and look at the cultural issues BME users face in addiction. BAC-IN provided therapeutic counselling to individuals, and support, advocacy and family support to parents. When members of BAC-IN felt confident enough, they then moved into the other mainstream services. The project grew to be funded by Nottinghamshire DAAT to offer support and counselling to DIP BME users. Manjit was then employed as a Service User Involvement and Advocacy Officer in Derbyshire. He established five user forums throughout the county, a quarterly newsletter for users, ensured that service users and carers were on the DAAT Board, and service users were involved in setting up the Buddies for Addicts in Derbyshire (BAD) project. BAD is a user led project serving current service users in the county of Derbyshire. He helped set up Greenwich Local Addiction Support Service (GLASS) a user led group, who carry out audit's, aftercare projects, consultation groups, deliver workshops to current service users and representation at all Greenwich DAAT strategic meetings in the borough.
Professor Antony Sheehan
CEO of Leicester, Rutland and Leicestershire Mental Health Trust
Professor Antony Sheehan joined the Trust as its new chief executive in June 2007. Prior to this Professor Sheehan was a senior civil servant, Director General for Health and Care Partnerships, one of the larger Directorates within the Department of Health. His responsibilities included policy leadership on asylum heath, health/criminal Justice System interface and mental health. He joined the Civil Service after being employed with the Regional Health Authority in the West Midlands. In 2003, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Wolverhampton University for his achievements in reforming mental health services in England.
Professor Michael Gossop
Head of Research, Addictions at the Maudsley Hospital
Professor Gossop is a leading addictions researcher in the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and Head of Research in the Addictions at the Maudsley Hospital, London. Professor Gossop was the Director of NTORS, the National Treatment Outcome Research Study, which investigated the outcome of more than 1000 people treated for drug problems at treatment services throughout England. Professor Gossop has published widely on all aspects of the addictions, and especially on questions of treatment effectiveness. His publications include more than 400 papers and 9 books (including the textbook, Drug Addiction and Its Treatment). Professor Gossop has acted as Specialist Adviser on drug misuse to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology, and as expert adviser on substance misuse problems to the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Health, the Home Office, the Parliamentary Office on Science and Technology, the Cabinet Office, and the Department of Employment.
Alan Dalton
Local Government Association
Alan is an independent consultant with significant experience in local government. His last permanent post was as Assistant Chief Executive at Bradford Council for three years leaving in September 2006. He managed the Corporate Directors of the Council over this period including Human Resources; Finance; Asset Management; Legal and Democratic Services; and Policy and Corporate Support. Alan chaired the Executive's of Bradford Community Safety Partnership, the local Drugs Intervention Programme and Bradford Youth Justice Board. Alan has worked in a consultancy capacity for a range of community and voluntary organisations as well as an Interim Manager in local government. He is currently Interim Director of Community Safety for the London Borough of Croydon. He is an Audit Commision Affiliate, a qualified teacher and a former youth worker. Alan continues to support the Bradford voluntary and community sector in a range of activities in addition to his consultancy assignments.
Viv Ahmun
Chief Executive of In-volve
Viv is CE of In-vole, which is a national medium sized charity, which employs over 200 staff members. Viv is also the Director of Equanomics UK, and founder of The Federation of Black and Asian Drug and Alcohol Workers. Viv specialises in service and workforce development, and the development of systemic approaches to supporting those communities in greatest need. He currently chair’s London’s Practitioner Forum, which is driving London’s development of coordinated strategies for addressing the increased instance of weapons, and group related violent crime amongst young people. The Forum acts on behalf of the Youth Justice Board, Home Office, NOMS, MPS, MPA, DH, NTA, GOL, and a number of other key statutory partners.
Julia Hodson
ACPO (Criminal Justice)
Julia Hodson is the Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police and the National Association of Chief Police Officer lead for Integrated Offender Management. Ms Hodson joined the Merseyside Police in 1982 and gained LLB Law Degree from Sheffield University. She continued further education at Lancaster University and received an MA in ‘Crime Deviance and Social Policy’. Since then she has completed a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Counselling’ from John Moore’s University, Liverpool. She transferred to Greater Manchester Police in June 1995 as a Superintendent working in the Development and Inspectorate Branch and Uniform Operations and as Commander at Wigan Division. She then moved to Lancashire Constabulary taking up the post of Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for Human Resources and Training and subsequently became ACC Operations and then Acting Deputy Chief Constable. Ms Hodson was appointed Deputy Chief Constable of West Yorkshire in 2004 and was appointed Acting Chief Constable in September 2006. She remained in this role until the arrival of Sir Norman Bettison as Chief Constable in January 2007. She was awarded the QPM in January 2008.