The Nottinghamshire Probation Board is appointed by the Home Secretary and oversees the Service in Nottinghamshire. Board members are recruited from the local communities from a range of backgrounds. The Chief Officer is also a member of the Board.

The Board meets monthly and as well as acting as the local employers they direct the planning and day to day running of local probation work.

Click here to see the Outcomes of the recent Board Development Day

Board Members

 

Christine Goldstraw                   Jane Geraghty

(Chair of the Board)                    (Chief Officer)

 

Eddie Patterson                        Keith Sudbury

Byron Currie                             Jane Thompson

Kamaljit Gill                              Emma Burnett

Catherine McLaughlin                Professor David Ward 

Bonnie Jones                            Paul Grant

Jeff Grant 

Secretary to the Board
Derek Owen

Board Member Profiles
Christine Goldstraw

Background: Christine is the current Chair of Nottinghamshire Probation Area Board and a Director of the Probation Board Association.  She is also a Justice of the Peace and Chair of Governors at New College Nottingham.  Prior to her retirement in 2003, she became Director of Facilities and Nutrition at Nottingham City Hospital (NCH) and Director of Operations from 1991.  These roles encompassed strategic leadership and corporate responsibilites including outpatient services; the Patient Hotel; all facilities support functions, estates and capital planning.  Christine also worked as an advisor to the Board on Health and Safety, Emergency Planning, and was the Project Director for the formulation and production of the Trust's Strategic Outline Case for the re-development of the hospital and all Procurement matters.

She has has undertaken extensive surveys in both the NHS Acute sector and also a number of prestigious hospitals in the Private Sector across the Country in the role of Surveyor on the Kings Fund Organisational Audit Programe (later the Health Quality Service).

Other: Christine spends her free time walking the dog, travelling and enjoying fine wines.

 

Jane Geraghty

Background: Jane was appointed Chief Officer of the Nottinghamshire Probation Area in April 2005, having previously held the post of Chief Officer of the Humberside Probation Area since May 2000.  Prior to this she was Deputy Chief Officer for the West Midlands Probation Area and worked as an Assistant Chief Probation Officer from 1989 to 1998 at the Home Office, Inner London and South Yorkshire Probation Areas.  She has also working as a Senior Probation Officer in Lincolnshire and a Probation Officer at both Middlesex and Nottingham.

 

Jane is the current Chair of the Nottinghamshire Local Criminal Justice Board , and was appointed as a Non-executive Director of the Central Nottinghamshire Health Trust Board in October 1999. She is also currently a representative of the Parole board.

 

Aspirations: As a trained European Excellence Model (EEM) Assessor her key priorities are EPI, enforcement, community safety, partnerships and better quality services.

 

Other: Jane attended Hull University, to read Drama and English, where she met her husband.   She has three children and a twin sister who is a Barrister working in London. 

 

Catherine (Kate) McLaughlin

 Background:  Kate is a former language teacher and assistant head teacher with the welfare of staff and students one of her main areas of responsibility.  She line managed special needs and performing arts departments, and lead the school through two rounds of the 'Healthy Schools' award scheme, as well working with the head teacher to gain Charter Mark status.  She initiated and lead a school exchange for many years and was very involved in remodelling the workforce.

 

 

 Background:  Jane is a graduate of Middlesex University with an M.A. in Social Policy and Administration.  She is a former an Occupational Therapist for the NHS in London, working with homeless people with mental health difficulties. Jane has also held a number of senior posts across the country, leading to the appointment as a Chief Executive for the West Lancashire Primary Care Trust.  She has participated in a number of national NHS and related initiatives including the implementation board for the Freedom of Information Act in the NHS.  

Background:  Bonnie is a former fraud investigator with HM Customs and Excise, and has been Chair of Newark and Sherwood Primary Care Trust for the past six years.  During her time at the Trust, she lead them successfully through the transition from Board to Trust status. The Trust also ‘hosted’ the Nottinghamshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team and charities working with the families of drug dependents, Hetties and WAM.

 

Other: Bonnie has been a resident of north Nottinghamshire for ten years and has two young children.  She is also Chair of a local charity, Newark After School Club, which provides out of school care from bases in Hawtonville, Newark. In addition to this, she is a member of the executive committee of Newark and Sherwood Community and Voluntary Service.

 

 Background: Emma has experience in the commercial sector working as a Market and Financial Analyst for large blue chip companies including BP in Australia and BAT in London.
 Other: Emma spent over four years as a single mum bringing up two boys, working locally.  She is now remarried and also has a daughter.

Jeff Grant

 

 
 Background:  Kamaljit has worked in the voluntary and statutory sectors and has an extensive knowledge and understanding of welfare rights and advocacy issues, coupled with a valuable academic background in Social Policy and Criminology.  She is currently working on a freelance basis as an Independent Assessor for the NHS Commission, and is a member of the Department of Work and Pensions standards Committee and  Police Authority.

 

 

 

 

 Background: Keith has worked within the field of education in Nottinghamshire for thirty years, as a teacher in both the City and County.  He has been a headteacher for the last ten years and was chosen to lead two secondary schools which had previously failed Government Ofsted inspections and were considered 'highly challenging' .

 



Byron Currie