Jo Thompson

Jo Thompson
Trustee

Jo was appointed to the Parole Board in 2010, having spent 2 years seconded from the Probation Service as the lead on Quality Assurance in the Parole Board Secretariat. Prior to that Jo was seconded to the Home Office/Ministry of Justice from 2003 to 2008 working in the Public Protection Unit on the development of the MAPPA nationally and the implementation/training for Probation of the IPP sentence and the CJA Act 2003, and later in NOMS on recall policy.

Jo’s experience and knowledge/skills have been in the area of risk and risk assessment in particular within probation and psychological approaches to it. Prior to her secondment and later Parole Board appointment, Jo was active in Napo, and in professional issues in particular. For the last few years Jo was part of the Parole Board Forum locally and nationally, which brought together the Parole Board (Members and Secretariat) and Probation Service (Practitioners and Senior Management) with the intention of working together to improve practice and public protection and the relationships between all those involved in the care and supervision of those for whom they were responsible. The forum also included partners in prison, mental health, psychological services in prison and the community, housing etc.