Martin Narey Joins Slater Baker
Martin Narey’s most recent position is that of Chief Executive of Barnardo’s, having previously worked as Director General of the Prison Service, Chief Executive of the National Offender Management Service and a Permanent Secretary at the Home Office.
Martin began his career in the Health Service and moved to the Prison service in 1982 working in a local prison, borstal and a top security prison before taking a number of posts in Whitehall. He was appointed as the youngest ever Director General of the Prison Service in 1998.
He has a passionate concern for disadvantaged young people hence his decision to join Barnado’s in 2005. Under his leadership Barnado’s has become the UK’s biggest children’s charity, working each year with more than 100,000 disadvantaged children and young people and with a staff of around 8000 and 14,000 volunteers.
As well as taking the charity through a period of sustained growth, Martin’s expertise and leadership has succeeded in significantly improving the charity’s influencing capacity with government while significantly raising public awareness of the organisation. There have been major achievements in changing government policy on issues such as child poverty, children in care, asylum seeking children and the supervision of child sex offenders.
He was chair of the independent commission on social mobility which reported in 2009.
Martin’s ability to talk about leadership, motivation and the management of change to a wide and varied audience is hugely appreciated