Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 37
37
Paragraph: 154
Businesses may have some reservations about employing former prisoners, which the Government must work to...
Recommendation
Businesses may have some reservations about employing former prisoners, which the Government must work to overcome. The Government must introduce incentives to encourage businesses to employ former prisoners, such as national insurance holidays for the first year of employing former prisoners.
Paragraph Reference:
154
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
We accept this recommendation in principle. We are currently developing personal learning plans for prisoners and developing measures of progress. We are very keen to capture outcome data and use this to inform curriculum choices to make sure we are delivering the right skills and training to get prisoners into work. 16 Government Response: Not just another brick in the wall: why prisoners need an education to climb the ladder of opportunity We are also considering our monitoring and evaluation strategy for planned initiatives such as the Employability Innovation Fund and will explore the potential for longitudinal research as part of this, alongside other potential evaluation methods. Data on the impact of interventions and the effect on the proven reoffending rate (against a matched comparator group who did not receive the intervention) is also possible via the Justice Data Lab (and this was used recently by the Prisoners’ Education Trust to evidence the impact of their study grants).