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<p>Prisons should be places of safety and reform. I am determined to make sure that
we achieve better outcomes for all prisoners including in education, and I want to
see much clearer accountability for prison governors for the education delivered in
prison and the results prisoners achieve. Mandatory education assessments were introduced
for the first time in August 2014, for all new receptions to custody in England. This
shows that in the year to September 2015 fewer than half the people entering prisons
had basic standards of English and maths, and around a third had identified learning
difficulties or disabilities. Data prior to August 2014 is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Prison
education is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.</p>
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