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The power of skills innovation in prisons“This is not just a social agenda It’s hard economics. Industries are facing a skills crisis, and there is a huge amount of untapped potential in our prison population. The rewards can be enormous.” Kirstie Donnelly MBE, Chief Executive Officer, City & Guilds Contents About City & Guilds Our work in prisons The need for skills development and employment pathways City and Guilds Prison Qualifications Spotlight: The Clink Innovative funding through the City & Guilds Foundation 04 05 06 08 10 12 14 16 18 20 St Giles No Going Back Groundwork Intertrain, HMP & YOI Hatfield, and HMP Highpoint HMP Humber & HMP Hull Bounce Back Spotlight: Top 5 Tips to Successful Simulator Spotlight: Supporting Neurodiversity in Prisons The impact of our funding interventions: 22 23 24 26 3We believe in a world where everyone has access to the skills and opportunities to succeed. As a global leader in skills development, City & Guilds offers the tools, qualifications and training to help people into a job, progress on the job, and move onto the next job. We partner with customers to create flexible learning pathways that build competency, provide resources and support, and enable lifelong employability. The City & Guilds Foundation aims to create systemic change through high impact social investments, celebrating best practice in learning and advocating for jobs of the future. We support people through critical moments of change in their lives and our commitment to delivering social impact is the central driving force to everything we do. About City & Guilds 4 About City & GuildsReoffending costs approximately £18.1bn every year. Our work in prisons At the same time, employers and sectors are facing critical skills shortages. There is vast untapped potential in our prison population that, if supported, can address both challenges. We are intensely aware of the life changing link between skills, social mobility, prosperity and success. When it comes to prisoners, the relationship between quality skills, access to employment opportunities and the ripple effect of community integration is startling. We believe that these activities not only help address major societal and economic challenges but are our responsibility to deliver as a Royal Charter body powered by charitable purpose. To help prisoners reach their potential and to capatalise on the potential of skills, City & Guilds’ work in prisons spans everything from quality training and recognition services, to collaborating with employers seeking to access new talent, to funding innovative deploying new technology that help prisoners secure skills for future employment. Our work in prisons 5Education and training has the potential to boost self-confidence, improve mental health, and generate positive behaviours both in prison and on release. When done well, education allows students to engage their imagination and enables them to picture a different future for themselves. This is particularly The need for skills development and employment pathways Adult prisoners have typically had a negative experience of education training and employment compared to the general population. important in prison education. Prisoners said that finding a sense of meaning through personal development, often through education, work and training was important to them. It gave them a sense of self while in prison and as they prepared for life after release. 6 The need for skills development and employment pathwaysThe need for education, training and employment support in prison Evidence shows that adult prisoners have typically had a negative experience of education training and employment compared to the general population: Expelled or permanently excluded from school (In 2005 >1% of school pupils were permanently excluded) Never had a job (3.9% general population) Unemployed in the four weeks before custody (7.7% of the economically active population are unemployed) With 47% of the prison population lacking any qualifications and 68% being unemployed in the weeks preceding custody, there is a considerable lack of job- readiness. Engagement with education and training has been shown to considerably reduce reoffending. According to a 2020 study, the one-year reoffending rate among prison learners was 34%, compared to 43% for those who did not engage in any form of learning. However, despite evidence that engagement with skills and education reduces reoffending rates, there remains a gap in high-quality in-prison skills and skills and education programmes. State of the market 141 prisons in the estate •Hit hard by Covid-19 and lockdowns •Demand for more consistent individual learning plans •Despite improvements, there is still a need for more established recruitment and employer links to help offenders gain the skills and capabilities they need to find work •Need for more established infrastructure to provide post-release support, housing, mentoring, etc. to enable sustainable employment •Need for more high-quality interventions to ensure prisoners have the best chance of success in the workplace •Need for consistent digital platforms and support to enable tracking of learning. 59% Regularly truant from school (5.2% general population) 42% 68% 13% The need for skills development and employment pathways 7City & Guilds Prison Qualifications City & Guilds collaborates with over 120 prisons across England and Wales to equip more than 60,000 learners in the adult and youth prison estates with the knowledge and expertise they require to secure jobs and unleash their potential. Hospitality and Catering City & Guilds offer a range of qualifications that meet occupational standards, from food safety to professional chef and food service. Construction City & Guilds is the leading provider of construction training and qualifications from Entry Level to Level 4, covering everything from basic hand skills, specialist trade occupations and site supervisory and management skills. Maths and English From Entry Level to Level 2, these qualifications can be delivered as bite-size or full qualifications. •Social, personal development and lifelong skills •Art & Design and Creative Media qualifications •Business and enterprise courses •Vocational skills training The core offer includes: In England, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) designated us as the exclusive provider of qualifications in prisons for Maths and English, Construction, and Hospitality and Catering from August 2018. We provide many additional learning opportunities of value to a wide range of industries including: 8 City & Guilds Prison QualificationsImpact of our Qualifications: The MOJ’s Justice Data Lab analysed the re-offending behaviour of 8,513 individuals who registered for one of our courses while serving a prison sentence. The overall results indicated that those who took part in the programme were less likely to re-offend, had a lower frequency of re-offences and took longer to re-offend than those who did not. Key Findings: •Every 100 participants registering for a City & Guilds programme decreases the number of proven re-offenders during a one-year period by between 2 and 4 people. •For participants who re-offend during a one-year period, registering for a City & Guilds course lengthens the average time of first proven re-offence by between 4 and 11 days. City & Guilds Prison Qualifications 9Next >