How apprenticeships are offering prisoners a new start
National Apprenticeship Week takes place this week (5-11th February) and it is only the second time prisoners have been included. Entrepreneur James Tweed urges all…
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Tackling the skills gap and prison overcrowding in one go
There is a potential workforce of 85,000 people sitting in our prisons. With the right organisation and incentives for business, we could be filling many…
City & Guilds Foundation funds Breakthrough to support prisoners into apprenticeships in innovative new partnership
The City & Guilds Foundation and Breakthrough, the UK’s first apprenticeship provider to recruit directly from prisons, have entered a new partnership to support prison…
Prisoners finally have a place this National Apprenticeship Week
Educating and training prisoners could cut crime and reduce the UK’s skills gaps, but apprenticeships have historically been off limits for former prisoners. Now, legal…
Prisoners start as apprentices at big name employers
Prisoners at open prisons in England to start apprenticeships thanks to change in law High-quality apprenticeship opportunities on offer from big companies including Greene King,…