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<p>We know that getting prisoners into employment on release is key to leading law-abiding
lives in the community. Prisoners who participate in in-prison education are 9 percentage
points less likely to reoffend on release. To help prisoners develop new skills we
are:</p><ul><li><p>delivering a Prisoner Education Service which raises the level
of the numeracy, literacy and skills of prisoners, with the aim of securing jobs or
apprenticeships after they leave custody;</p></li><li><p>rolling out new Heads of
Education Skills and Work to provide expert guidance to governors in designing education
and training provision for their populations;</p></li><li><p>establishing an Employability
Innovation Fund to enable Governors to work with more employers and training providers
to repurpose workshops, deliver sector specific skills training and to improve prisoners’
literacy via a Literacy Innovation Fund; and</p></li><li><p>allowing prisoners to
undertake apprenticeships which they can complete in the community following a change
in the law made in September 2022.</p></li></ul>
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