Scottish Government

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Contents

Remit

Workstream Membership

Methods

Acknowledgements

1. Context for policy and practice
1.1 Scottish Government Strategic Objectives
1.2 Scottish Prison Service aims and measures
Key Performance Indicators for SPS
1.3 Background: in practice
1.4 Integrated Case Management ( ICM)
Core Screen interview
Enhanced ICM
1.5 Integrate the learning role into the life of the prison
1.6 Assessing skills and employability
1.7 Assess capacity as well as risk and need

2. Improve research evidence on outcomes

3. Develop tools for desistance

4. Maintain a household focus as far as possible

5. Build an active learning culture in prisons
5.1 Informal learning
5.2 Formal learning: overview
No-shows
Resources for learning
5.3 What to learn?
Current profile
Literacy and numeracy
Practical life skills
5.4 Why learn?
Growth mindsets
Incentives and disincentives
Qualifications
Wages
5.5 Where to learn?
Role of prison libraries
5.6 When to learn?
Duration
5.7 How to learn?
Peer support
Approaches to learning
Learning difficulties
Tools for learning: ICT and on-line
5.8 Improvement: inspection and quality assurance
5.9 Reward progression and completion
5.10 Reforms to learning: summary of learning centre staff views

6. Re-think employability for recession and welfare reform...
6.1 Employment: what's the baseline?
Induction
Pre-release
6.2 Employability context
6.3 Work
6.4 Vocational Training
Prisoner views: positives and negatives
Reforms to VT
6.5 Community Work Placements
Release on Temporary Licence
6.6 Volunteering

7. ...then engage with target employers
Comparative approach

8. Pre-release activity: start sooner and ensure a focus on learning, skills and employability
8.1 Offender views nearing release
8.2 Offender views on pre-release services
8.3 Role of Jobcentre Plus advisers
8.4 Stakeholder feedback
8.5 Information Advice and Guidance for LSE

9. Develop better ways to measure progress

10. Decide how to target limited resources

11. Don't neglect the workforce development challenges
11.1 Cultural challenges
11.2 Skills Utilisation

12. Weigh up the options for commissioning and co-ordinating
12.1 Principles and questions
Offender learning for a different prison estate

13. Proposed actions: a better future for learning in custody

References

Annex