First Chief Executive for Northamptonshire Connexions

Adrian Bell has a wide experience of working in support of young people. Having trained as a teacher and as a social worker he has spent much of his working life in developing youth justice practice and has also worked in policy development nationally for the Youth Justice Board.

He moved to Northamptonshire to lead the development of the Diversion Unit, which worked with both victims and offenders to help to put things right and divert people from Crime. The success of this Partnership working was carried into his role as Senior Policy Adviser at the Youth Justice Board where he was responsible for the development of Youth Offending Teams nationally.

In 2001 he was appointed as Chief Executive to the Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Connexions Partnership, and moved to Northamptonshire, where his family have remained during his travels, to become Chief Executive in Northamptonshire in April 2002.