The Board
Board members are appointed by the Home Secretary. Their function is to ensure that the local area delivers against the aims and priorities of the National Director and the Home Secretary. The Board is the employer of the staff of the local area, and is responsible for agreeing an annual plan to assist staff deliver against national objectives within a nationally determined budget.
In Surrey there are 15 members of the board including the Chief Officer. The Board members come from a variety of backgrounds and have experience in the public and private sector. Some of them are also magistrates and one member is a Crown Court judge, appointed as the Lord Chancellor's representative.
Board members also sit on a number of forums. In Surrey these are Human Resources, Diversity, Performance Monitoring, Audit and Partnerships and Contracts. Board members may also be part of a panel that deals with complaints about the service or be part of a committee that negotiates and consults with staff. Board meetings take place bi-monthly.
 | PAULINE DAWKINS, Chair, was a trade representative. Her work in this field commenced at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where she rose from local union representative to Vice President of the Public and Commercial Services Union, representing 250,000 members. She spent 20 years in this department, training union members in employment law for 15 years. In May 2006 she stood down from her four year term as a Merton Councillor. However, she remains active in the community as a director of the Citizens Advice Bureau, is chair of a local voluntary group and also chairs the Board's Human Resources Forum. |
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|  | ANDREW HODGES is the leader of the leader of Guildford Borough Council. He has been a councillor in Guildford since 1976. His areas of responsibility are the council's strategic vision, overseeing council performance and achievement of political priorities, budget strategy, local strategic partnership and community plan, modernisation of local government, new political structures and constitution and liaison with business. He is a Chartered Accountant and is currently Head of Finance at the Bioindustry Association, a trade association for the emerging bioscience sector. Prior to that he was Finance and Administration Director of the charity The Duke of Edinburgh's Award having moved from industry where he was the Director of Accounting with Biwater in Dorking. He has served as a member of boards of management of a number of local charities. |
|  | JOHN JEFFERY is a retired Serco Group CEO and, prior to that was a Chief Officer in local government where he led a Management Employee Buy Out of a works department. That business was then sold to Serco in the early nineties. John's last role with Serco was to head the Group's Home Affairs division running private prisons, immigration centres, electronic monitoring and court escorting (which started his interest in the Criminal Justice System). After obtaining a Diploma in Management Studies at Portsmouth, John's managerial career has been very much focused on the management of change, industrial relations, and growing competent management teams. John and his wife live in Cobham. |
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  | KAREN PAGE became Chief Officer for Surrey in April 2004. Her Probation career started with Humberside Probation where she gained wide experience of working both in the community and in prisons. From Humberside Karen moved to Kent Probation Area where she was Head of Throughcare. Promotion to Assistant Chief Officer followed with responsibility for performance management. Immediately prior to her appointment in Surrey, Karen was an Inspector at HMIP with the focus on quality of practice and performance standards. The Chief Officer is a member of the Probation Board and responsible for operational matters in Surrey Probation Area. |
|  | FRANCES RUMSEY joined the Surrey Probation Board in January 2006. She has worked mainly in the public sector with a short period in the voluntary sector working for a charity for people with disabilities. Frances has many years experience of managing front line welfare benefits organisations across most areas in Central and South London. She is currently an HR professional working in a pensions policy area for the Department of Work and Pensions. Her main focus at work has been in the areas of leadership through change, diversity, coaching and people development. Frances is married and lives with her husband in Esher. They have a married daughter and a baby grandson.  She is a yoga practitioner, loves to travel and learn about new people and cultures and is a trained volunteer mentor for ‘looked after' young people. |
| Â | HH JUDGE SOUTHWELL is the Lord Chancellor's nominee on the Board and sits as a Judge in Kingston Crown Court. |
  | MEG WEBB JP has lived in Surrey for over 30 years and has been a Magistrate for 20. She is currently chair of North West Surrey Youth Panel and has, in the past, sat on advisory committees. Her professional background is education, having being involved with Special Needs children for most of her career, although she has also worked with adults. She firmly believes any organisation is as strong as those working in it and as a Magistrate she has seen Surrey Probation evolve and go from strength to strength. |
|  | DAVID WRIGHT OBE joined the Board in January 06. David represents the Tillingbourne Ward on the Guildford Borough Council and is Chairman of Licensing introducing the new Licensing and Gambling Acts. He is also on the Boards of the Guildford and Waverley Primary Care Trust and the Surrey Hills Partnership. He works part-time counselling his colleagues in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on retirement issues. He served for 40 years in the British Diplomatic Service specialising in the Middle East. For the past 30 years he has lived at Newlands Corner with his wife, Gail, and their five children. |
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