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Biography
As Director General of the prison service in England and Wales he had the most thankless and difficult of all public sector leadership roles. A hostile and change-resistant prison warders union on one side, the hang ‘em and flog ‘em Daily Mail on the other, and responsible to short-term Westminster politics, Martin used his time in prisons to bring decency and fairness to a system lacking both.
In 2005, he took over Barnardo’s and turned its fortunes around, transforming the country’s biggest provider of help to poor and abused kids.
Today Martin remains a high profile media figure with his role as adviser to the Government on children. He is also the Chair of the Portman Group and on the Board of the Advertising Standards Authority. He has written regularly for The Times and other newspapers and is a visiting Professor at the Universities of Durham, Manchester Metropolitan and Sheffield Hallam.