Times of Change
For the second year running we are sponsoring the Annual
Offenders' Learning, Skills and Employablility Conference, which
will be held at Inmarsat Conference Centre, London on 13 May
08.
The conference, which is supported by the Learning and Skills
Council and the Prince’s Trust, will highlight the role of
employers, discuss the work done with offender learning in the
community, and set out what needs to be done to work towards
equality of high-standard provision of prison education and
offender learning.
We will be delivering a seminar entitled ‘Offender employment in
diverse communities’ and will showcase our Kormo Shadin project.
Jen Byrne, Head of Social Justice and Soji Olukunle who leads the
Kormo Shadin project will jointly present the seminar.
Key speakers from government, the secure estate, probation,
business, education and local government will contribute to the
debate and make clear the strategy for offender learning in the
years ahead.
Key invited speakers include:
- David Lammy MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for
Skills
- Dr James Robertson, Chief Economist & Director PFI Value
for Money Studies, National Audit Office
- Bradley Roynon, Chief Executive, Southampton City Council
- John Podmore, Operational Adviser, Department of Offender
Health, NOMs; former Governor, HMP Brixton
- Dr Mary Harris, Director, Offender Training and Employment
Programme, National Grid
- Michael Spurr, Deputy Director General, Operations, HM Prison
Service
View the conference
agenda.
“Spending on offender learning has almost trebled
since 2001, and now stands at £164m. The Chief Inspector of
Prison’s recent report described the improvement in prison learning
and skills as ‘the most heartening
success’.”
Ministry of Justice, Prison Policy
Update