Dominic Herrington

Executive Director, Transforming Delivery, His Majesty's Prisons and Probation Service, Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom

Dominic Herrington is Executive Director of the Transforming Delivery Directorate in His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), which is part of the Ministry of Justice for England and Wales. The Directorate is responsible for future operational strategy for the prison system in England and Wales. Dominic is also a member of HMPPS Senior Corporate Leadership Team. He oversees key national workforce transformation programmes in the training, development and wellbeing of prison officers, and their managers and leaders. He wrote, and oversees, the HMPPS People Strategy (2025-30) and chairs its People Board, which oversees work across the prison and probation services.
This conference session will focus on a key aspect of staff training, development and improving culture. Originating from a range of practitioner experience and academic evidence, Dominic leads the ‘Enable’ programme, an ambitious system-wide, national project to build positive, pro-social and boundaried relationships between prison officers and prisoners in over 100 prisons. This will facilitate stable, safer prison environments that ultimately will lead to a reduction in reoffending and protection of the public. Dominic’s previous senior professional experience was in leading national level reform in the national school system at the Ministry of Education in England, where he received a national honour for his services.