Jen Walters is one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors Managing Inspectors with national responsibility for judicial and offender learning in Ofsted. She manages this work across Directorates and through joint inspection with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation.

Inspections of education and training comprise secures children’s homes, secure training centres, prisons, immigration removal centres and probation Trusts.

Jens career in senior management has spanned almost equal time across industry, further and higher education and inspection. She holds a teaching qualification and an MA in Organisational Management and Behaviour. She first qualified in hotel catering and institutional management where her interest in offending behaviours and her work with vulnerable young people and adults began. She formed one of the first successful collegiate alliances between further education and industry for vulnerable learners. She has a strong belief in ‘restorative justice’ in its widest sense and how it can be successfully applied across all organisations.