Joe Kuipers is the former Chair of Avon and Somerset Probation Trust and a former Probation Inspector.
He has over 40 years’ experience in probation in all grades and arenas. This includes a number of years as an advisor to the Home Office and the MoJ and over 10 years with HMIP.
At HMIP he was Assistant Chief Probation Inspector and acting Deputy Chief Inspector. Amongst other work, whilst with HMIP, he led on the Internal Monitoring and Inspection Programme; PSR quality improvement programme; the Offender Assessment quality improvement programme; and the design and introduction of OASys, the offender assessment system.
He also led for HMIP on the content of the first National Standards and subsequent iterations.
He also served as Chair of Avon and Somerset Probation Trust until its abolition under the TR programme.