Eoin Mclennan-Murray has succeeded Paul Tidball on his retirement to become the seventh president of the Prison Governors Association. (PGA) Eoin joined the Prison Service in 1978 having graduated from Queen Mary College, London with a BSc Honours in Biological Sciences. He has served in ten prison establishments, twice as Governing Governor, as well as spending four years in Prison Service Headquarters where he was Staff Officer to the Director General and then the manager responsible for development and national roll out of the accredited cognitive skills and sex offender programmes. He also spent two years on secondment to the Adult Basic Skills Strategy Unit within the Department for Education and Skills, where as Head of Employer Initiatives he held responsibility for developing national strategies to improve levels of literacy and numeracy within the work force. Eoin cites Governing of HMP Blantyre House, a resettlement prison in Kent as his personal career highlight. The establishment consistently had the lowest re-conviction rates of any prison in the United Kingdom. Elements of the pioneering work at Blantyre House on resettlement have now been replicated in many prisons throughout the Service, having a positive impact on both resettlement and influencing highly on reducing reoffending. He said, "I am delighted to take up the Presidency of the Prison Governors Association and look forward to both representing the interests and views of our membership as well as developing our professional links with other organisations within the criminal justice world" The Prison Governors Association exists to represent the interests of its membership and promote and support continuous improvement within the criminal justice system. The PGA membership of over 1400, includes Operational and Senior Operational Managers of grades A to F and Senior Civil Servants whose background is in operational prison management. The bulk of grades A to F occupy Governor, Deputy Governor and other governor grade posts in the public sector prisons of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland although many are serving periods of secondment in NOMS Headquarters and other Criminal Justice organisations. |
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PGA appoint new Presidentposted 23 Sep 2010 18:13 by Unknown user |