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In this webinar, we are joined by Prison Advice and Care Trust, Prison Reading Groups, National Literacy Trust, and The Reading Agency, to discuss family learning in prisons. The session is chaired by Jonathan Gilbert – PLA Steering Committee member and former prisoner – who reflects on the impact initiatives such as these had on him, and his family, while in prison.
The PLA’s new report on professional development for prison educators looks at how we can train, support, and develop the prison teacher workforce.
In this webinar, we are joined by Dr Helen Nichols, author of Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men, to to talk about how education is used by men in prison to cope with prison life, to reconsider their identity and to develop and maintain relationships.
September 29th 2022 is the third Hidden Heroes Day. This is a chance to recognise and thank all the people working in custodial and community justice settings in the UK. While they are often hidden from public view, they are not forgotten.
In this webinar, we are joined by Emily Giles of The Bell Foundation and Gill Hunter of the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research (ICPR), to talk about language barriers in the criminal justice system.
Ofsted have re-issued their handbook for the inspection of education, work and skills activities in prisons and young offenders institutions. In this short blog, we look at the changes coming into place on 1st October 2022.
In this webinar, we are joined by Lesley McAra and Susan McVie, Co-Directors of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime.
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.
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