Helen Edwards CBE is a British civil servant, currently serving as the Director-General for Criminal Justice in the Ministry of Justice. Having originally trained and worked as a social worker for East Sussex County Council, Edwards worked for the Save the Children Fund in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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  • Helen Edwards CBE is a British civil servant, currently serving as the Director-General for Criminal Justice in the Ministry of Justice. Having originally trained and worked as a social worker for East Sussex County Council, Edwards worked for the Save the Children Fund in the London Borough of Lambeth. She then spent 18 years working at Nacro, the national crime reduction charity, where she undertook a variety of roles, ending up as Chief Executive, for which she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2000. Edwards joined the Home Office in 2002 as Director of the Active Communities Directorate. From January 2004, she held the post of Director-General of the Communities Group where she was responsible for the Home Office's work on volunteering, the voluntary and community sector, race equality, faith, community cohesion and civil renewal. She took over as Chief Executive of National Offender Management Service (NOMS) on 10 November 2005, following the resignation of Martin Narey. During this period, NOMS transferred from the Home Office to the Ministry of Justice, as part of a government reorganisation. On 1 April 2008, she became Director-General Criminal Justice, with Phil Wheatley taking on the role of Director-General of NOMS. Edwards has a first degree in social science from the University of Sussex and a Masters degree from University of Warwick, and recently received an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Trustee of the Washington-based Eisenhower Foundation. She is married with three children.
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  • Helen Edwards CBE is a British civil servant, currently serving as the Director-General for Criminal Justice in the Ministry of Justice. Having originally trained and worked as a social worker for East Sussex County Council, Edwards worked for the Save the Children Fund in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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