PLA Conference 2022: Valuing Prison Education, Valuing Prison Educators
Join us for the PLA Conference 2022: Valuing Prison Education, Valuing Prison Educators, on Wednesday 19 October at The Foundry, Vauxhall in London.
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Join us for the PLA Conference 2022: Valuing Prison Education, Valuing Prison Educators, on Wednesday 19 October at The Foundry, Vauxhall in London.
In this webinar, Professor John Vorhaus is joined by Andy West, for a conversation about his book, The Life Inside.
On 26th May, PLA members, and some eminent speakers gathered in London for our first face-to-face meeting in over two years. We met to discuss our hopes and aspirations for the new prison education contracts.
Today, the Education Select Committee released their long awaited report on prison education. In this short blog, we look at their findings that focus on staff who support education delivery.
Ofsted have just released their research on education recovery in prisons looking at how prisons are reintroducing activities following the pandemic lockdown. Recovery in prisons has been much slower than in the community and Ofsted found too little progress.
Failing to teach prisoners to read is a massive missed opportunity. Read more about what needs to change.
We recently hosted a PLA Wednesday Webinar in conversation with Dr Cormac Behan, author of UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning publication, Prison Education: A literature review.
The Prisoner Learning Alliance (PLA) written response to the Prisons Strategy White Paper is the conclusion of conversations with our members, including prison educators and people with lived experience of prison. We are grateful to each contributor for your ideas, and we will be working hard to try and make them happen. Prisoners are […]
The last annual report by Ofsted revealed that only 9 of the 32 institutions inspected were judged to be ‘good’, with the vast majority requiring improvement, or deemed ‘inadequate’. How do you defend the Government’s poor record on prison education? This was the first question asked in the final evidence session of the Education […]
PLA members will be aware that the Prisons Strategy White Paper was published last week. This reiterates the government’s commitment to expanding the prison estate, recruiting more officers and a zero-tolerance approach to drugs in custody. They also promise a step change in education, work-focused skills, training, and employment in prisons. However, while there are […]
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