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Recommendation 34
34
Accepted
Paragraph: 144
Release on Temporary Licence allows relationships to develop between prisoners and employers and allows prisoners...
Recommendation
Release on Temporary Licence allows relationships to develop between prisoners and employers and allows prisoners to require vital employment skills. The Government must ensure that greater use is made of Release on Temporary Licence for work placements, thus enabling prisoners to receive employment experience towards the end of their sentence.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepts this recommendation. They will change the legislation to enable apprenticeships for prisoners to start in the autumn.
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144
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted
We accept this recommendation. Work is ongoing to maximise workplace ROTL in the open and female estate. This will require development of a strategy for reshaping the regime, primarily in open prisons, to divert prisoners from current activities, such as workshops serving the internal market, into ROTL, or workshops serving the external, commercial market.
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