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Recommendation 37
37
Acknowledged
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.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepts this recommendation in principle and are developing personal learning plans for prisoners and developing measures of progress; they are considering their 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.
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Paragraph Reference:
154
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government · verbatim extract
Acknowledged
We accept this recommendation. MoJ is setting up Employment Boards and an Employability Innovation Fund that will explore the sorts of incentives we can provide business to recruit prisoners. This might include tailoring training to meet their needs or providing the opportunity to set up some workshops within prisons. We will continue to keep this area under review.
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