Transcript Susan Easton

Rehabilitation:
The role of learning
Susan Easton @susaneaston
About NIACE
• Influencing policy.
• Innovating in delivery.
• Campaigning for learning.
• Strategic partnership leading to proposed merger in January 2016
• Covering whole span of learning, skills & work
About the session
This session will:
• Explore key drivers for prisoners to learn and to engage in their
own learning
• Examine evidence and examples of NIACE programmes
which exemplify positive approaches to change.
The rehabilitation challenge
Many offenders go on to reoffend…
…resulting in big costs
Individuals
• Lost potential, including impact on career prospects
• Family impact
Society
• Around £65,000 taxpayer cost per reoffender
• Lost potential & impact of crime rates
…and learning and skills are at the heart of this
LIKELIHOOD OF REOFFENDING
Drug & alcohol
misuse
Behaviour &
attitude
Family & networks
.
Employment
.
Learning & skills…
Associated with
better health &
wellbeing
Can lead to
measurable
attitudinal change
Shown to boost
confidence &
children’s results
Needed for most
jobs & careers
.
One in two offenders has no qualifications: compared to 15% of adult population
What is NIACE doing?
English & Maths
• Intensive provision in prisons: Led to improvements in attainment (2013)
• Resources for secure estate: Working with six prisons (forthcoming)
• Maths Mentors: Active in 22 prisons (ongoing)
Virtual campus & National Careers Service
• Virtual campus: Promoted use to >1000 OLASS & HMPS staff (since 2010)
• Resources for secure estate: Co-design interactive, accessible materials
• National Career Service: Enhance delivery for release & rehabilitation (forthcoming)
Personal & social development
• Pilot: Pilot with OLASS providers in female estate (2016)
65% of prisoners lack functional numeracy
Maths Everywhere: An app to boost adult numeracy
In prisons and through the gate
65% of prisoners lack functional numeracy
Maths Everywhere: An app to boost adult numeracy
In prisons and through the gate
65% of prisoners lack functional numeracy
Maths Everywhere: An app to boost adult numeracy
In prisons and through the gate
65% of prisoners lack functional numeracy
Maths Everywhere: An app to boost adult numeracy
In prisons and through the gate
One in two prisoners lack functional literacy
One in two prisoners lack functional literacy
Need to improve ESOL provision
•
Education in context & not just formal learningc
•
Citizens Curriculum – core skills for the 21st Century, including English, maths, ESOL,
digital, civic, health and financial capabilities - Over 160 learners in pilots including
offenders and ex - offenders
Career and employability resources on the VC
Career and employability resources on the VC
Peer mentoring is strong driver for prisoners with low / no previous skills
•Prepare for release through experience and qualifications in information, advice and
guidance (IAG) highly valued by prisoners
•Benefits to mentors and mentees
•Maths4Prisons piloted in 2012 and rolled out to more than 40 prisons
•Mentor and learner improvements in attitudes and engagement
•Maths Mentors Active in 22 prisons Trained over 90 mentors to support prisoners
informally and formally
•Trained 50 tutors and managers to roll out training to 18 prisons.
•NCS career mentors developed in partnership with prime contractors to enhance
careers advice and guidance
Identifying individual drivers is key to motivation
Promotion of learning to prisoners should include stronger messages and benefits to
prisoners’ families
E.g. parenting, supporting children’s homework and health benefits.
Family learning works
Maths 4 Mums: Innovative approach to family learning in HMP Styall
Programme benefits prisoners’ families.
Mentors supported other women to develop their maths skills and delivered family
learning activities for Family Days
What works - PSD
Education in context & not just formal learning
PSD programme for female prisoners
PSD enables learners to acquire helpful attributes and values through increasing their
understanding of the links between their thoughts, actions and feelings and their
knowledge of appropriate ways of thinking about and behaving in social situations.
Important for female prisoners
Positively changes attitudes, behaviours and ways of coping with external pressures
What works - Whole prison approach
Move from narrow definition to whole learner journey - Whole Organisation
Development Process
New approaches better outcomes
Coates Review of education
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Outcomes
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Motivations
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Whole prison approach
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Transforming rehabilitation
NIACE response to Coates Review
41% of prisoners don’t engage in prison Research use of 24+ loans to enable
education due to lack of availability of
long term prisoners to access higher
higher level learning
level courses
Prisoners’ access to higher level
qualifications is severely limited
Higher level wholly online accredited
courses
“Transforming Rehabilitation” aimed to
move towards payments also based on
reducing reoffending and increasing
employment.
Include incentives to increase
partnership between education and
community based providers
Almost 1/3 prisoners think a peer
mentor would make learning easier
Sustain peer mentor programmes
Motivation improved through learning
which better meets needs and interests
Flexible programmes which embed basic
skills
NIACE response to Coates Review
Many prison staff have negative
experiences of education
Offer staff learning opportunities
Prisoners’ access to higher level
qualifications is severely limited
Higher level wholly online accredited
courses
Provide pathway into work through
apprenticeship and traineeship
programmes
Monitor development of
apprenticeships and preapprenticeships for offenders
PSD learning enables learners to acquire Ensure PSD programmes are available as
helpful behaviours, attributes and
part of core offer.
values
Learning for women must take account
of their personal, domestic and socioeconomic circumstances
Develop specific curricula for women in
prison
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