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
What were increases of education due to COVID?
24%, great impact on education
How many prisons improved?
43
How many prisoners identified as having a learning difficulty?
1/3
What level of education did prisoners have on entry to prison?
English and maths at entry level 1-3 than level 1 and 2 combined
How many prisoners went through a full level 3 coursein 2014/15? (Coates)
100 out of 101600 learner
What are the barriers for level 3 education? (Coates)
Lack of leadership and guidance
Lack of support for prisoners
Prisoners having to pay for level 3+ courses causing them to take out loans
What were the Bromley Briefing facts?
The educational background of children in custody is poor —nearly nine out of 10 children (89%) in YOIs said they had been excluded from school
Over two-fifths (42%) said that they were aged 14 or younger when they were last at school
85% of children in YOIs said they were taking part in education before the pandemic.
What did Hopkins report?
47% of prisoners reported having no qualifications
21% reported needing help with reading, writing or numeracy
5% were educated beyond A-level
Yet- only one in ten prisoners –“learning is not for people like me”
What did Williams et al report?
42% of adult prisoners report having been permanently excluded from school
How many people released from custody are re-convicted within one year of release?
37%
What does Ministry of Justice, 2017, say?
Engagement with education can significantly reduce reoffending
What is the organisation of prison education?
Each prison has an education department and a library
It is contracted out in the prison education framework and the dynamic purchasing system with 4 providers
Who purchases the education providers?
The prison governor
What is the process for higher education?
Prisoners are required to self-fund level 3+
What are examples for community and volunteer sectors?
Samaritans, koestler trust, fine cell work
What are the need for groups of prisoners? (Coates Review)
Bias towards BAME prisoners, ethnic minorities doing well in school, BAME prisoners education is lower in prison but over-represented
What effect does education have? (Coates)
Relationships with family to reduce recidivism
Art and music can help with confidence
What are the difficulties for young adults in education? (Coates)
Young adults are seen as the most difficult to engae in education and lack in maturity
What occurs for women in education? (Coates)
Employment for women is 3x worse for men and 1 in 10 women have jobs after release
