Meeting Needs? The offenders learning and skills service, National Audit Office, March 2008
“Ensuring offenders have the underpinning skills for life (literacy, language, numeracy and basic IT skills), and have developed work skills, to enable them to meet the real needs of employers in the area where they live or will settle after their sentence is complete.”
Providing learning activities for offenders while they are in prison or serving community sentences is
an important way to help them improve their basic literacy and numeracy skills, or to gain more advanced or directly vocational qualifications. Enhancing their skills can help individuals to find employment, which evidence suggests reduces the likelihood that they will re-offend. As at the end of June 2007 there were in England 78,000 individuals in custody and 245,000 offenders under supervision by the Probation Service.
Filed under: Forensic Mental Healthcare, National Audit Office, prisons | Tagged: custody, education, forensic, learning, life skills, literacy, occupation, Occupational therapy, olass, prisoners, prisons
