My former colleague Barry Snelgrove, who has died aged 68 of most cancers, was a ahead considering senior probation officer. He was concerned in a lot of groundbreaking initiatives all through his profession earlier than becoming a member of the House Workplace, the place he grew to become a coverage adviser on points linked with offenders.
In complete Barry spent 21 years within the Nationwide Probation Service, working primarily within the London space. For 3 years from 1990 he was the director of Sherborne Home in Southwark, an experimental day centre run by the Inside London Probation Service (ILPS) for younger grownup offenders. It offered, amongst different issues, employment abilities coaching, an lodging discovering service and an offending behaviour programme. It started every day by providing contributors breakfast, since lots of them had been homeless.
Later, as group service director for the ILPS, Barry joined forces with Thames 21, a charity that helps to scrub London’s waterways and presents lots of of offenders work on canals and rivers.
Barry additionally performed a key function in delivering a joint Metropolitan police/ILPS initiative in 2000 and 2001, underneath which offenders made bunk beds, furnishings, toys and playground tools for orphanages in Romania.
After becoming a member of the House Workplace in 2001, Barry took on a lot of management roles, first as an adviser on the employment, schooling and the resettlement of offenders, after which on a staff growing digital tagging. From 2014 he spent greater than three years as head of a global tasks staff throughout the Ministry of Justice that used European Union and Overseas Workplace funding to arrange programmes along with different European governments.
Barry was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, to Frank, a sheet metalworker at Vauxhall Motors, and Pamela, a housewife. He graduated in 1980 from Hatfield Technical Faculty (now the College of Hertfordshire) with a level in utilized social research earlier than turning into a probation officer in Bedfordshire (1980-83) after which in Middlesex, the place he was promoted to senior probation officer in 1985.
He grew to become director of Sherborne Home 5 years later and stayed there till 1994, after which he was assistant chief officer for the ILPS till he moved to the House Workplace as a coverage adviser in 2001.
From 2007 to 2013 he was a senior contracts supervisor on the Ministry of Justice, earlier than turning into head of worldwide tasks on the Ministry of Justice and the House Workplace, managing an built-in staff. For the final two years of his working life he was the joint head of regulation on the authorities’s jail and probation service.
A champion of LGBT rights, over time Barry campaigned for these affected by discrimination. He was a Ministry of Justice convener for the civil service FDA union and gained its Wendy Jones Award in 2019 for his work on range.
He retired in 2019 after which labored for Variety Function Fashions, a charity that combats homophobic bullying in faculties. He had come out as homosexual within the early 90s and married his long-term associate, Philip Mountford, in 2006.
He’s survived by Philip, a son, Lawrence, from his first marriage, to Evelyn (nee Linnell), which resulted in divorce, by his mom and a sister, Lynn.
