Continuing Learning: From Prison to Work, 2002

This seminar arose out of the Charity's concern to focus on groups of young people whose educational needs may have been overlooked by both the statutory services and the voluntary sector.

There were growing concerns that many young people were benefiting from education while in prison but not continuing their learning once back in the community. Alan Carter and colleagues from Hammersmith & Fulham Community Learning and Leisure Services presented a review of learning programmes targeting young people leaving prison, including those programmes set up in partnership with the Prison Service and those designed to start while in custody and continue on release. Participants included Brian Wheelwright from the Wates Foundation, Frances Crook, Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, and representatives from the Probation and Prison Services.