Chief Inspector - Kit Chivers

Kit Chivers was born on Merseyside and educated at Glasgow and Oxford Universities, where he read Classics, Ancient History and Philosophy.  He spent much of his career as an official in the UK Treasury, serving as junior Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Secretary (Financial) in the British Embassy in Washington, Head of Assistance to Industry, a member of the Prime Minister’s Efficiency Unit and Director of Savings at the National Savings Agency.
 

 In his later years at the Treasury he focussed on management issues, writing reports on the problems of the inner cities and a wide range of other public sector management issues.  He lectured regularly on public sector management at the Civil Service College. He was a member of the team of six which produced the Citizen’s Charter for John Major in 1992, to which he contributed the Chartermark scheme.

 In 1998 he became HM Chief Inspector of the Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales and of the Children and Family Courts Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS).  As such he was one of the five Chief Inspectors of the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales (HM Inspectors of Constabulary, the CPS, Prisons, Probation and the Courts) and was responsible for the Joint Secretariat to the Chief Inspectors.  He was appointed the first Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland under the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 in August 2003.

In private life Kit was Secretary of the Student Christian Movement at Oxford, and used to write on theology for the Guardian.  He was Chair of a Neighbourhood Council in Brixton, served as Secretary of the Brixton Council of Churches for 21 years, and chaired an Anglican-Methodist Local Ecumenical Project. He now lives in Northern Ireland.