Maggie Blyth KPM

Maggie has worked in the criminal justice service for over 36 years, and has particular specialist expertise in public protection from the front line through to senior leadership. In the early 1990s she worked across London and Oxford for the probation service, then set up the first youth offending service (YOT) in Oxfordshire in 1998 going on to work as a senior adviser to the newly formed Youth Justice Board between 2000 and 2005, with oversight of practice and performance of all 144 YOTs across the UK. Between 2005 and 2016 Maggie’s had oversight of local child protection arrangements as an independent chair and she also held a Ministerial appointment as a Member of the Parole Board. In 2016 Maggie joined policing as a warranted officer, taking up role as a district commander with responsibility for Portsmouth City. After completing the National Police Strategic Command Course in 2019 she transferred as Assistant Chief Constable for Local Policing to Wiltshire, returning as ACC to H