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Offender Employment, Skills and Services Group

Offender Employment, Skills and Services Group. Directorate of Commissioning and Operational Policy. NOMS Agency Operational delivery on behalf of Ministry of Justice Public Sector prisons and Probation. OESS: Prison Industries Catering Prison Radio Retail Community Payback

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Offender Employment, Skills and Services Group

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  1. Offender Employment, Skills and Services Group Directorate of Commissioning and Operational Policy

  2. NOMS Agency Operational delivery on behalf of Ministry of Justice Public Sector prisons and Probation

  3. OESS: Prison Industries Catering Prison Radio Retail Community Payback Skills and Employment

  4. 10,000 prisoners in workplaces each day • 305 workshops • £5.2m pa revenue • 420 commercial contracts • £30m internal sales value • 90m meals a year

  5. Partners include: • Travis Perkins • Timpsons Academy • Nationwide Auto centres • Pets at Home • London Underground • Barnardos

  6. Community Payback: £38m pa of value in local communities 6.5m hours of unpaid work ETE Teams move 15000 offenders into work each year

  7. Common theme: Skills, work experience “Employment is single most important factor in reducing re-offending”

  8. So, why Social Firms? Common Values Trading Opportunities Custody /Community Models Mentoring Creative, joint solutions?

  9. Working in Partnership : Presentation by Remploy on development of Offenders project in Yorkshire and HumbersideSocial Firms Conference Manchester 2009

  10. Jo Munns Head of Remploy Social Enterprises Remploy Ltd

  11. Introduction to Remploy • Sixty years experience of supporting disabled people gain and maintain employment • Last year we supported 7,500 people into mainstream employment with a range of disabilities • We have 3,000 disabled employees in our factory network of 54 sites • Our vocational rehabilitation business advises employers on retaining employees who have developed a disability or health condition • We specialise on supporting those with the most complex barriers

  12. Access to our services We have a rapidly expanding network of city centre recruitment branches PlusField based delivery for some services including basing staff on 3rd party premises. ie colleges and Employers.

  13. Changes in Sheltered vs mainstream employment at Remploy

  14. Yorkshire & Humberside Contract Remploy has won a key contract to deliver Education, Training and Employment to 7 prisons in the Y&H area. This contract is the first Offender contract Remploy has won and will help to develop a joined up and through the gate service. It will build on development work already underway by Remploy in Parc Prison, Bridgend.

  15. Service Delivery Aims • Nationwide service delivery for offenders wherever they live • Link into other programmes such as Workstep, FND, work prep, Workstep • Link into many partner organisations to ensure barriers to employment such as accommodation and benefits are arranged by release date • End to end candidate journey, from custody to employment (pre or post release) and post employment support • Specialist Assessments: - Dyslexia Vocational Evaluation • Leverage existing 3,500 employer relationships • Access to disability statistics and on going outcome measures

  16. Process Map

  17. Further Information Questions ?

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