Education and skills
Supporting positive futures
At Sodexo, we have been running prisons in the UK for 30 years and are committed to rehabilitating offenders, treating those in our care with dignity and providing opportunities for purposeful activity. Our employment, education and rehabilitation services give them the skills, qualifications and support to lead law-abiding lives in their community on release.
Working in partnership with external organisations across a variety of sectors, we are creating learning opportunities that enable prisoners to develop knowledge and skills that will help to lead to employment on release.
Our vision
Our vision is to create a learning environment that is inspirational, robust purposeful and diverse
Quality delivery ensures learners reach their full potential through inclusive, relevant and developmental learning
Our intent
To provide a personalised learner pathway that meets the needs of the prisoner, providing them with a platform to transfer to the next establishment, or education or employment on release.
Implementation
- Deliver a needs-based curriculum, identifying additional needs
- Identify prisoner starting points
- Deliver vocational curriculum pathways
- Offer appropriate qualifications that link to employment, both within and outside of the prison
- Foster a whole-prison approach, creating continuity of support
Impact
- Prisoners engaging in meaningful education and work
- Behaviour, attitude and outlook improve
- Increase in confidence
- Employment within the prison, linked to the labour market and supporting employment on release
- Supportive for mental health and neurodiversity needs