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Key Documents

• NOMS 5 Year Strategy: Protecting the Public and Reducing Re-Offending (pdf)
• Offender's Learning Journey for Adult Offenders (doc)
• Offender's Learning Journey for Juvenile Offenders (doc)
• Green Paper: Reducing Re-Offending Through Skills and Employment (pdf)
• OLASS: A Brief Guide (pdf)
• Reducing Re-Offending Through Skills & Employment: Next Steps (pdf)
• Green Paper Consultation Response Summary (doc)

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• Reducing Re-Offending Through Skills and Employment: Next Steps - Press Release

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Reducing Re-Offending Through Skills and Employment: Next Steps

Reducing Re-Offending Through Skills and Employment: Next Steps

The Next Steps document was launched on the 13th December 2006, at an event attended by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Alan Johnson, and other ministers from DfES, DWP and Home Office.  As its title suggests, the document sets out the way in which the Government will take forward the strategy set out in last year’s Green Paper: Reducing Re-Offending Through Skills and Employment.  It responds to the many constructive comments made in the consultation, reports on the good progress already being made, and sets out a programme of reform which will take us beyond 2010.  

The Next Steps agenda will be taken forward through three important strands of work:  

·              A strong drive to engage employers through the Reducing Re-offending Corporate Alliance, linked to the Skills strategy and the outcome of the Leitch Review of Skills.  Working with employers to design and implement new models of training and preparation for jobs;  

·              Building on the new offender learning and skills service through the development of a campus model, which has among its key features:

·        a focus on employers’ needs;

·        an employability contract as part of the sentence plan, to motivate offenders and focus resources where they will have most impact;

·        more flexible access to skills and employment support, with effective use of ICT.

·              Build a new emphasis on skills and jobs in prisons and probation using unpaid work in the community, work opportunities in prisons, with a particular focus on developing the workforce to deliver this, and using the new commissioning role of the Regional Offender Managers.

Download the full document: Reducing Re-Offending Through Skills and Employment: Next Steps

Next Steps was launched at our national conference in London's QEII Conference Centre. The conference was attended by more than 200 people who debated the main proposals set out in the document and gave their feedback.

We committed to publishing that feedback at the conference and the full report can be found here.