Caroline Corby

Caroline Corby (born 1965) is the Chair of the Board of the Crown Prosecution Service, the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, and the Peabody Trust, and formerly served as Chair of the Parole Board for England and Wales.

Early life Corby was born in 1965 and grew up in North London. She has a degree in mathematics and statistics.

Career Corby’s early career was in private equity in the City of London. The Parole Board is an independent body which decides whether prisoners in England and Wales can be safely released into the community. It determines around 22,000 cases each year. It has around 300 members who make the assessments and decisions. These members are supported by 220 staff.

Corby was a board member (2014-2019) of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which reviews possible miscarriages of criminal justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

She has been a board member of Cafcass, (2014-2021) which safeguards the welfare of children in the Family Courts in England. Corby was a panel chair for a number of the statutory regulators including the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Social Care Council.

In 2021 Corby became chair of the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). The PSA reviews the work of the ten statutory regulators of health and care professionals, accredits organisations that register health and care practitioners in unregulated occupations and gives policy advice and encourages research to improve regulation.

Corby became chair of the Peabody Trust in January 2024. Peabody is a housing association in the United Kingdom that manages homes and provides housing for residents in London and the South East.

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