Dame Glenys Stacey, former Chief Inspector of Probation

Published: Oct. 20, 2019, 11 a.m.

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Dame Glenys Stacey has spent 40 years in public service, including high profile work as a regulator in key areas of national life. She has just stepped down after her five year term as Her Majesty\\u2019s Chief Inspector of Probation during which she criticised the decision to privatise the Probation service calling it \\u201cirredeemably flawed\\u201d.

Glenys was born in Walsall Wood in the West Midlands, where her father was a painter and decorator for the council and her mother worked full time in Union Locks. She left school at 16 and her first job was in an explosives factory. She became a legal executive before deciding to take A levels and then study law at the University of Kent. She was the founding CEO of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, set up by the government in January 1997, after the miscarriages of justice in the cases of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four. As Chief Executive of Animal Health, she oversaw the management of the outbreak of foot and mouth in 2007 and then led Ofqual for five years, during the reform of GCSEs and A levels.

She was awarded a Damehood in 2016 for her services to education and earlier this year she became a founding Board Member of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, an advisory body established by the government.

DISC ONE: Loch Lomond \\u2013 Sir Harry Lauder\\nDISC TWO: Harry Belafonte - Scarlett Ribbons (For Her Hair) \\nDISC THREE: T.REX \\u2013Ride a White Swan \\nDISC FOUR: Peter Gabriel \\u2013 Solsbury Hill \\nDISC FIVE: Wagner - The Ride of the Valkyries \\nDISC SIX: Second movement of Saint Saen\\u2019s Piano concerto number 2 in G minor \\nDISC SEVEN: Bob Marley and the Wailers - I Shot the Sherriff \\nDISC EIGHT: Soave sia Il vento from Mozart\\u2019s Cosi fan tutte

BOOK CHOICE: Oxford Book of English Short Stories\\nLUXURY ITEM: A selection of seeds\\nCASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel

Presenter: Lauren Laverne\\nProducer: Cathy Drysdale\\nPhoto: BBC / Amanda Benson

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