Welcome - new General Manager Alison Thom

Taking up the challenge of leading the Department’s Rehabilitation and Reintegration team is newly appointed General Manager Alison Thom.

Of Ngapuhi descent, Alison joins the Department from Te Puni Kōkiri, where she has been working as the Deputy Secretary, Relationships & Information since 2004.

In this role she was responsible for strategic management and leadership of Te Puni Kōkiri’s regional operations, programme funding management, and brokering and managing Crown – Māori relationships.

Alison has previously worked in the area of child welfare with Child, Youth & Family before being appointed Director of SAFE, a community sex offender programme in Auckland.

Alison is an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services in the management of child sex offenders and child protection.

In all of the key roles she has had, from social work through to this new position, Alison has been dedicated to ensuring that Māori interests and needs are understood and integrated in to service delivery.