Prison education

Prison education: Treasury drags heels on pension guarantee

Private providers could pay 'considerably less' in pension contributions under new contract, unions warn

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Ofsted, Prison education

Prison leaders slammed for ‘slow progress’ on reading education

Education and prisons watchdogs criticise lack of progress on last year’s damning report on reading education

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Prison education

MoJ to ramp up HMP Academies in prisons

At least 17 new prisons identified for employer-led work programmes

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Prison education

MPs and peers call for prison education to be brought into public ownership

Lords debate and parliamentary motion hears calls for standardised curricula and qualifications

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Prison education

Government steps up plans to improve prisoners’ literacy skills

Government launches reading app pilot and contract for literacy schemes

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships, Prison education

First prisoners start work as apprentices after change in law

Up to 300 prisoners are expected to be recruited onto apprenticeships by 2025

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Prison education

Prison education: Ministers to tackle ‘disastrously overlooked’ issue of prisoners with SEND

Officials also pledge to provide prisoners wit education 'passports' and more in-cell laptops

Tallulah Taylor
Tallulah Taylor
Industrial action, Prison education

Prisons face educators’ strike action over low pay

Their union claims prison educators have seen their pay fall by 25% since 2009

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Prison education

Fred Sirieix’s prisoner-run restaurants to expand to boost hospitality skills

First Dates star's charity turns prison mess kitchens into high street style restaurants and trains inmates in hospitality skills.

Jason Noble
Jason Noble