Term 2 Lecture 2- Education and Rehabilitation Flashcards
What are the key readings?
The Coates Review
What are the key points from the Coates Review?
2014/2015, 101600 prisoners engaged in prison learning
24% of prisoners reported to be in the care system at one point, only 2% of the population has
3/5 of the prisons leave without employment, education of training outcome
What is the summary from the Coates Review?
Reoffending costs 9.5-13 billion a year
Changes for prisoners should be purposeful prison time, building of self-esteem, progression and plentiful opportunities for work
Education should be in 3 phases
What is the context of prisoner education in the Coates Review?
Difficult to meet all needs
13% report having no job ever
Rise in older offenders
Funding doesn’t meet the need of prisoners with higher sentences
Prisoners doing OU modules is dropping
Higher education leads to career prospects to reduce reoffending
What did the Social Exclusion unit report lead to?
The development of the cross-government national reducing re-offending delivery plan
What did the Social Exclusion unit report guide the practice on?
Accommodation
Education, training, employment
Health
Drug and alcohol
Finance, benefit and debt
Children and families
Attitudes, thinking and behaviour
What are the additional pathways for women?
Women who have experiences violence
Women involved in sex work
What are the key facts for prisoner education?
High levels of undiagnosed and diagnosed learning difficulties
Termination of education at younger ages
More likely to have terminated in young teems
High prevalence of poor English and maths at entry to prison
What are the reasons for resettlement?
Practical, ethical, legal and cost
How is resettlement practical?
As most prisoners will eventually return to the community
How is resettlement ethical?
As the state has deprived an individual of their liberty and therefore take responsibility for ensuring no further harm and punishment occurs
How is resettlement legal?
Due to the international and european human right legislation and the children’s rights within prison
Why does resettlement focus on cost?
As it is expensive to incarcerate so they do not want reoffending
How many prisoners participated in courses (2022-2023?
63744
What did Ofsted rate the education in prison?
Most are require improvement or are inadequate