UK NPM Leadership Change

Chair of the UK NPM, Sherry Ralph, shares an update on behalf of Sam Gluckstein, Head of the UK NPM.

Sam Gluckstein will be moving on from his post as Head of the UK NPM this December. He will first take some months to work with the Office of Inspectorate of Prisons in the Republic of Ireland to progress the implementation of OPCAT as Expert Senior Advisor, before returning to the UK where he will take up post as Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons in Scotland in the Spring.

Sam has been a pivotal and transformational leader of the UK NPM and we are delighted he will continue to work as a leader of the UK NPM from his new post in HM Inspectorate of Prisons Scotland.

I would like extend my enormous thanks to Sam for his leadership and creativity during his time at the helm of the UKNPM. He has led through a period of significant and important change, and done so with fantastic results, the legacy of which leave the UKNPM in a strong place.

Martin Kettle has been appointed Interim Head of the UK NPM from 1st of December and an external campaign will be run in due course to find a successor.