Term 2 Lecture 2- Education and Rehabilitation

Question 1

What are the key readings?

Answer 1

The Coates Review

Question 2

What are the key points from the Coates Review?

Answer 2

2014/2015, 101600 prisoners engaged in prison learning
24% of prisoners reported to be in the care system at one point, only 2% of the population has
3/5 of the prisons leave without employment, education of training outcome

Question 3

What is the summary from the Coates Review?

Answer 3

Reoffending costs 9.5-13 billion a year
Changes for prisoners should be purposeful prison time, building of self-esteem, progression and plentiful opportunities for work
Education should be in 3 phases

Question 4

What is the context of prisoner education in the Coates Review?

Answer 4

Difficult to meet all needs
13% report having no job ever
Rise in older offenders
Funding doesn’t meet the need of prisoners with higher sentences
Prisoners doing OU modules is dropping
Higher education leads to career prospects to reduce reoffending

Question 5

What did the Social Exclusion unit report lead to?

Answer 5

The development of the cross-government national reducing re-offending delivery plan

Question 6

What did the Social Exclusion unit report guide the practice on?

Answer 6

Accommodation
Education, training, employment
Health
Drug and alcohol
Finance, benefit and debt
Children and families
Attitudes, thinking and behaviour

Question 7

What are the additional pathways for women?

Answer 7

Women who have experiences violence
Women involved in sex work

Question 8

What are the key facts for prisoner education?

Answer 8

High levels of undiagnosed and diagnosed learning difficulties
Termination of education at younger ages
More likely to have terminated in young teems
High prevalence of poor English and maths at entry to prison

Question 9

What are the reasons for resettlement?

Answer 9

Practical, ethical, legal and cost

Question 10

How is resettlement practical?

Answer 10

As most prisoners will eventually return to the community

Question 11

How is resettlement ethical?

Answer 11

As the state has deprived an individual of their liberty and therefore take responsibility for ensuring no further harm and punishment occurs

Question 12

How is resettlement legal?

Answer 12

Due to the international and european human right legislation and the children’s rights within prison

Question 13

Why does resettlement focus on cost?

Answer 13

As it is expensive to incarcerate so they do not want reoffending

Question 14

How many prisoners participated in courses (2022-2023?

Answer 14

63744

Question 15

What did Ofsted rate the education in prison?

Answer 15

Most are require improvement or are inadequate

Question 16

What were increases of education due to COVID?

Answer 16

24%, great impact on education

Question 17

How many prisons improved?

Answer 17

43

Question 18

How many prisoners identified as having a learning difficulty?

Answer 18

1/3

Question 19

What level of education did prisoners have on entry to prison?

Answer 19

English and maths at entry level 1-3 than level 1 and 2 combined

Question 20

How many prisoners went through a full level 3 coursein 2014/15? (Coates)

Answer 20

100 out of 101600 learner

Question 21

What are the barriers for level 3 education? (Coates)

Answer 21

Lack of leadership and guidance
Lack of support for prisoners
Prisoners having to pay for level 3+ courses causing them to take out loans

Question 22

What were the Bromley Briefing facts?

Answer 22

The educational background of children in custody is poor —nearly nine out of 10 children (89%) in YOIs said they had been excluded from school
Over two-fifths (42%) said that they were aged 14 or younger when they were last at school
85% of children in YOIs said they were taking part in education before the pandemic.

Question 23

What did Hopkins report?

Answer 23

47% of prisoners reported having no qualifications
21% reported needing help with reading, writing or numeracy
5% were educated beyond A-level
Yet- only one in ten prisoners –“learning is not for people like me”

Question 24

What did Williams et al report?

Answer 24

42% of adult prisoners report having been permanently excluded from school

Question 25

How many people released from custody are re-convicted within one year of release?

Answer 25

37%

Question 26

What does Ministry of Justice, 2017, say?

Answer 26

Engagement with education can significantly reduce reoffending

Question 27

What is the organisation of prison education?

Answer 27

Each prison has an education department and a library
It is contracted out in the prison education framework and the dynamic purchasing system with 4 providers

Question 28

Who purchases the education providers?

Answer 28

The prison governor

Question 29

What is the process for higher education?

Answer 29

Prisoners are required to self-fund level 3+

Question 30

What are examples for community and volunteer sectors?

Answer 30

Samaritans, koestler trust, fine cell work

Question 31

What are the need for groups of prisoners? (Coates Review)

Answer 31

Bias towards BAME prisoners, ethnic minorities doing well in school, BAME prisoners education is lower in prison but over-represented

Question 32

What effect does education have? (Coates)

Answer 32

Relationships with family to reduce recidivism
Art and music can help with confidence

Question 33

What are the difficulties for young adults in education? (Coates)

Answer 33

Young adults are seen as the most difficult to engae in education and lack in maturity

Question 34

What occurs for women in education? (Coates)

Answer 34

Employment for women is 3x worse for men and 1 in 10 women have jobs after release