Jim Gamble

rdf:langString Jim Gamble

rdf:langString Jim Gamble QPM

rdf:langString Jim Gamble QPM

rdf:langString Bangor, Northern Ireland

rdf:langString Jim Gamble

rdf:langString November 1959

rdf:langString CEO of INEQE Safeguarding Group

rdf:langString "I have resigned because I'm concerned about the direction of travel that CEOP is moving in. I am deeply concerned that it is not going to be best for children, because I believe you either begin from a position of what is best for policing or a position of what is best for children themselves. I am concerned that the advice that we have given from our mixed-economy multi-agency staff, through the response to the consultation, the responses from the Children's Commissioners, the NSPCC, the Association of Directors of Children's Services, ACPO and APA, that all of that is not being taken into account, as the NCA business case is being developed at speed and in a direction that I think is fundamentally wrong. I resigned to remove myself from the equation so that there could be no misperception that I have a vested self-interest in this, and I resigned in order that the issue that we focus upon would be what is best for child protection, not what is best for Jim Gamble or those within CEOP, but what is best for children."

rdf:langString Examination of Witness, Home Affairs Committee

rdf:langString James Gamble, KPM, is a former Chief Police Officer and was the founding Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre in the United Kingdom. Gamble is currently the CEO of the INEQE Safeguarding Group, the Independent Child Safeguarding Commissioner for the City of London and Hackney, formerly the City and Hackney Safeguarding Children Board; the first to be judged outstanding by Ofsted. He is also the Independent Chair of the Safeguarding Children Partnership in Bromley where he was part of the leadership team that drove their judgement from 'inadequate' to 'good', with 'outstanding' leadership in two years.