Andrew Bridges

Andrew Bridges CBE, BA, MA, MPhil, DipSW, FPInst
Justice advisor & former HM Chief Inspector of Probation

Andrew’s career in the Probation Service from 1973 onwards, including prison secondments, took him to Leicestershire, Wiltshire, Gwent, and Berkshire, where he was Chief Probation Officer from 1998-2001. He moved on to the Inspectorate, where he was HM Chief Inspector from 2004-11, since when he has undertaken work for other organisations such as the Victims’ Commissioner, G4S and Ingeus.

Andrew was known as a national authority on increasing offender employment from 1995-2001, on Probation’s public protection role since 2004, and generally on how to “make Probation work” effectively in practice now.