NIACE Education and Training for Offenders Conference
Tuesday 21 January 2003
Woburn House, Tavistock Square, Euston, London
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 a long way to go.
'Education and Training for Offenders' - the NIACE Policy Discussion Paper,
launched at this conference, 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'. Key
speakers include: Hilary Benn MP, Minister for Community and Custody
Provision and Judith Williams, Chief Education Officer, PLSU.
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.
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 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.
For more information and a booking form, contact Celestine Harris on Tel:
0116 204 4223, Fax: 0116 254 8368, Email: [log in to unmask]
Or visit our website at www.niace.org.uk/conferences
Education and training for offenders: A NIACE Policy Discussion Paper
Tony Uden, ISBN 186201 171 0, January 2003, £8.95. Please send a cheque for
£8.95 (plus. P&P) made payable to NIACE.
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