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Scottish Prison Service
• Scottish prisoner
population as at
Friday 2nd
September 2011
• Total in Custody 8,151
Scottish Prison Service – Education Providers
Carnegie College
Aberdeen, Perth,
Polmont, Inverness,
Castle Huntly, Peterhead,
Edinburgh
Motherwell College
Glenochil, Cornton Vale,
Shotts, Barlinnie, Dumfries,
Greenock, Kilmarnock
Sodexo Justice Services
Addiewell
• Carnegie College supports lifelong learning for
all, promoting social inclusion and a highly
skilled workforce for a competitive Scotland.
• They also offer educational services to prisoners
whilst they serve their sentences in seven of Her
Majesty’s Prisons.
• Delivers Programmes across 7 centres in Scotland.
• Literacy and Numeracy are a core part of the delivery in
all centres.
• Main body of the courses are taught in the Learning
Centre.
• Informal classes also delivered in the halls and have
included Art, book discussion groups, debates, visiting
speakers, ICT, card making sessions and quizzes.
SPS Edinburgh
SPS Edinburgh
• Edinburgh Prison is classed as a local or
community prison and receives prisoners from
the courts in Edinburgh and the Lothians and
Borders.
• The prison holds adult male and under 21
prisoners who are on remand or convicted
awaiting sentence, and convicted prisoners
serving sentences from non-payment of fines to
life.
• Since August 2011 a new women's wing was
opened housing approximately 100 women.
Education Programme
SPS Edinburgh
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Maths
English
Numeracy / Literacy
Creative Writing
ICT / Computing
ESOL
Art
Music
Writer in Residence
SQA Qualifications
Open University
Courses
Pre and Post Release Programmes
• Enhanced Addiction
Casework Service.
(EACS)
• Phoenix Futures
provides the EACS on
behalf of the Scottish
Prison Service. They
are a specialist drug
and alcohol treatment
provider.
• Harm Reduction
Sessions
• Assessment
• Alcohol Group work
• Recovery Planning
Groups
• Naloxone
• Stop Smoking
• Pre Release / Home
leave Group work
Pre and Post Release Programmes
Constructs
• Constructs is a general
offending behaviour
group work programme
for men, designed for use
in the community or in the
prison setting.
• It aims to reduce the
likelihood of participants
reoffending by changing
the way they think and
behave.
Pre and Post Release Programmes
• Violence Prevention
Programme (VPP)
• This is an intensive
programme for
offenders who are
considered a high risk
to re-offend with
violence.
• It aims to improve the
skills of the
participants, and
reduce the risk of
future violence.
Pre and Post Release Programmes
• Substance Related
Offending Behaviour
Programme. (SROBP)
• The programme is aimed
at very high to medium
risk offenders.
• It targets all substance
misuse as long as it is
related to their offending
behaviour.
• It is designed to be
continued in the
community by outside
support groups.
Pre and Post Release Programmes
• Rolling Stop
Programme.
• For offenders who
have a current or past
sex offence conviction
• A sexual element to
an offence
• Behaved in a sexually
inappropriate way