Author: TSO (The Stationery Office)
Year: 2008
Source: TSO (The Stationery Office)
Providing learning activities for offenders while they are in prison or serving community sentences is an important way to help them improve their basic literacy and numeracy skills, or to gain more advanced or directly vocational qualifications. Enhancing their skills can help individuals to find employment, which evidence suggests reduces the likelihood that they will re-offend. As at the end of June 2007 there were in England 78,000 individuals in custody and 245,000 offenders under supervision by the Probation Service.
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