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Conference to Launch the NIACE Policy Paper
Education and Training for Offenders
| Date: | Tuesday, 21 January 2003 |
| Venue: | Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London |
| Ref: | C9-70/01/03 |
[Background ] [Aims] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
Britain has the second highest rate of imprisonment in Western Europe. More than half of all discharged prisoners and more than three quarters of young male prisoners are reconvicted within two years. Fear of crime is often one of the factors people mention in surveys as reducing ‘quality of life’ in this country. Nearly all imprisoned people will return to live back in the community and what happens to them in prison helps determine how they will behave afterwards.
Education and training can play a key role in preparing prisoners for life on the outside. A number of changes in recent years have begun to reform the system of education and training in prisons so that it can perform that role. The recent establishment of a Prisoners Learning and Skills unit within the Department for Education and Skills takes that evolution a step further but there is still along way to go.
'Education and Training for Offenders' - The NIACE Policy Discussion paper takes the debate forward and makes a number of proposals that will help education and training play its full part in a prison system that really does work. Delegates will be invited to endorse NIACE’s proposals for reform. All participants will receive a free copy of the Policy Discussion Paper ‘Education and Training for Offenders’.
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Aims
The conference will provide opportunities to:
 | consider the role of education and training in a prison system that prepares people for life in the community rather than for a continual cycle of crime and imprisonment. |
| explore different aspects of education and training in prisons through workshops. |
| strengthen networks in this field and begin a period of partnership working and collaboration between NIACE and those already working in the system. |
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Audience
The conference will be of interest to prison governors, education managers, teachers and vocational trainers in prisons, to trade unions with members working in prison education, to college and LEA managers holding contracts for prison education, to the police force and many voluntary agencies working with prisoners and with ex-offenders and to all those anxious to see reform in prisons that reduces re-offending and restores prisoners to the community with the potential to live and work within the law.
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Programme
| 10:00 | Arrival and
registration (Tea/Coffee available) Chair: Nick Stuart, Vice President, NIACE |
| 10:20 | Welcome and Introduction to the Day |
| 10:30 | Learning Works Tony Uden, Senior Research Fellow, NIACE |
| 10:50 | Ministerial Address Hilary Benn MP, Minister for Community and Custody Provision, Home Office |
| 11:15 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 11:40 | The Learners Voice |
| 12:00 | Shared
Responsibilities Dan Taubman, National Official, Adult Education, NATFHE |
| 12:20 | Panel Discussion Chaired by Jon Snow, Broadcaster, Independent Television News |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Welcome back by the Chair |
| 14:05 | Afternoon Address Judith Williams, Chief Education Officer, Prisoners Learning and Skills Unit, Department for Education and Skills |
| 14:30 | Workshops – First
Session
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| 15:15 | Workshops – Second Session (repeated) |
| 16:00 | Beginning a period
of partnership working and collaboration Closing comments from the Chair |
| 16:15 | Close of Conference (Tea/Coffee available) |
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