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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.
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 […]
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