Want to find out how prisons across England and Wales can help overcome your recruitment challenges? Register your interest to find out more.
New Futures Network, part of HMPPS, is developing its academy delivery model to create brand new HMP Academies.
We are offering employers like you the chance to set up commercial spaces within prisons. These will deliver sector specific skills training, to meet the changing needs of the economy, and smooth the path from prison to employment. In turn your business will potentially benefit from:
- helping to reduce your costs by having a pipeline of new recruits who you are already familiar with and who know your business. Employers report people staying with them for longer than average. This reduces recruitment costs and increases staff retention.
- offering people a second chance and by doing so achieve outcomes that add social value to benefit local communities and / or society.
- integrating prison workshops into your supply chains.
Around 70,000 people are released from prisons across England and Wales each year. Many worked successfully before going to prison. By partnering with prisons, you can recruit from a diverse talent pool of people with a range of backgrounds and life experiences.
We know that having a job to go to on release from prison can significantly reduce the chance of reoffending and employers can benefit from securing committed and skilled people to fill gaps in the UK economy.
We are looking for a diverse range of businesses from across all sectors that can offer prisoners a second chance.
You could join businesses like The Timpson Group that have already benefited from setting up a number of academies. James Timpson, CEO of Timpson Group says “we recognise the value of vocational training at Timpson, and know the significant impact this can have on reducing re-offending. That’s why we have invested in several specialist training academies, all of which are located within prisons. We believe this approach is extremely effective in ensuring our prison leaver colleagues have a much-needed head start and can help them transition smoothly into the workplace. This proven approach to training and recruitment is now copied by other leading firms and I would encourage your business to get involved in this opportunity with the New Futures Network. We have an impressive prison leaver retention rate of approximately 75% and that makes everyone in the business who plays a part in prison leaver resettlement extremely proud.”
Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity. Please click on the below link to see the published PIN notice for detail on this procurement and instructions on how to register for the Market Engagement event on 13 October 2022.
Registrations for the Market Engagement event close on 06 October 2022 so please act quickly.
