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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.
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 […]
Prisons Minister Lucy Frazer has recently announced that the Government will be introducing in-cell technology to children’s prisons in England.
The Prisoner Learning Alliance has been campaigning for greater access to digital technology since we began. When faced with potential staff shortages and longer lock-up, the case for greater access to in-cell technology comes into its own.
The Ministry of Justice have extended the maximum length of Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) contracts to two years, a move called for by the Prisoner Learning Alliance (PLA).
The Dynamic Purchasing System launched over a year ago. In this blog post, we take a look at the DPS on year on, and how prisons are using DPS and which areas are being funded.
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