Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 20
20
Accepted
We recommend that prisons have clear and meaningful KPIs related to education, training and employment...
Recommendation
We recommend that prisons have clear and meaningful KPIs related to education, training and employment which are monitored by Ofsted. The Ministry of Justice must also reform the inspection regime so that Ofsted is able to give a grade for the education provider within the prison. We recommend that Ofsted is given the legal tools to allow it to take regulatory action against individual prisons, including, where necessary, changes to the prison leadership. (Paragraph 83) Education facilities and infrastructure
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepts the recommendation and states that the introduction of KPIs for governors will ensure they are incentivised to ensure more prisoners make progress and achieve qualifications, and that new contract service levels aim to incentivise providers and prisons to collaborate on learner allocation to courses.
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Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted
We accept this recommendation in principle. We accept the need for meaningful KPIs to be in place to measure education and training and HMPPS have recently introduced new KPIs for prison education provision including for progress in English and maths, for attendance at education activities, and for the number of prisoners attaining vocational qualifications. Ofsted will have access to this data as well as a full range of additional detailed information on assessment, participation, and achievement rates that are already used as part of the evidence base to inform its inspections and judgements.
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