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News

• Transforming Rehabilitation: How to measure its effectiveness

• 'Rehabilitation must be meaningful not imagined’, conference finds

• Lord Woolf: ‘Let’s take the politics out of prisons’

• GE2015: Parties' pledges on prison education

• Blog: Join up education and employment services

• Coates: Education should be “at the heart” of prisons

• Hardwick tells prison reformers to “seize the day” at time of change

• Prison charities give top marks to education review

• The real work starts here: moving forward after Coates

• Warehouses or greenhouses? Unlocking potential in England and Scotland

• PET, PLA urge Truss to continue reforms

• Truss Issues

• Truss before the Justice Committee: three lessons

• Wandsworth governor: I’ll consider yoga, scaffolding and a tattoo parlour in my prison

• PET welcomes Taylor recommendations on youth justice

• OLASS shakeup: a quiet victory for the PLA

• In youth justice reform, the government is sidestepping a local route to transformation

• Coates: One Year On

• Why The New Justice Secretary Needs To Care About Prison Education

• TV roundtable: can education help address violence?

• 10 things we know (and 10 we don’t) about changes to prison education

• Things we know, and things we don’t: an update on the new education contracts

• MoJ: the expectations and options behind governor commissioning

• 'Greenhouses not Warehouses': PLA launches new commissioning guide for governors

• Cuts to careers services in prisons: what we know

• PET Annual Lecture: Introducing our speakers

• Working it out: Does the new education and employment strategy add up?

Events

• Academic Symposium 2016

• PET's Annual Lecture: Dame Sally Coates: Leading learning: lessons from school leadership for our prisons

Press releases

• A4e to stop delivering education in London prisons

• Charity says: “Prison books ban is nuts”

• PLA welcomes new report about prison teachers

• PET responds to Justice Committee report: "rehabilitation starts in custody"

• New research: Education reduces reoffending

• Why learning matters for young adults: MoJ consultation response

• PLA says Ofsted’s findings on prisons must act as a “wake-up call” to Government

• Open letter tells Chris Grayling to get smart about rehabilitation reform

• Charities say computers can transform prisoner rehabilitation

• “Unacceptable for prisoners to be locked up all day when they could be learning”, says charity in response to HMIP report

• To stop reoffending, learning must be a priority

• Olympics legacy for sports rehabilitation in prisons is being wasted

• Restricted regimes and overcrowding impact education finds HMIP report

• PLA tells Parliament prisons need 'smart rehabilitation'

• Press Release: Justice report calls for greater focus on what works

• Prison charities give top marks to education review

• For the sake of prison education, Gove must “stay involved” in Justice

• "Don't abandon prison reform" - prison charities tell Truss

• Government must improve education for young people in custody

• Truss White Paper welcome answer to "chronic underinvestment" in prisons, but attention to more than basic skills needed

• Prisoner Learning Alliance appoints new Chair, Professor Tom Schuller

• PLA calls for new Prisons Minister to explain the termination of contracts to provide careers advice to prisoners

Stories

• Patrick: IPP prisoner questions loans

• Letter: Six year study rule is a barrier for prisoners

Case studies

• The Dame Sally Taskforce

Resources

• PET response to Secure Colleges and the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

• PLA response to Education Select Committee inquiry on underachievement in education by white working class children

• PET/PLA response to Justice Select Committee inquiry: Crime reduction policies: A coordinated response?

• PET consultation response to Transforming Management of Young Adults in Custody

• PET consultation response to Transforming Youth Custody: Putting education at the heart of detention

• PET consultation response to Transforming Rehabilitation

• PET/PLA response to Education Select Committee inquiry: Ofsted Further Education and Skills Report 2012-2013

• PET and PLA consultation response to the future development of Advanced Learning Loans

• Never too old to learn; a response to the Justice Select Committee inquiry into older prisoners

• Smart Rehabilitation: Learning how to get better outcomes

• Building on sand: Why expanding the prison estate is not the way to 'secure the future.'

• Community sentencing: Reducing reoffending, changing lives

• Crime reduction factsheet: How can we reduce reoffending by known criminals - The Overseas Evidence.

• Critical thinking about the uses of research

• Less Crime, Lower Costs: Implementing effective early crime reduction programmes in England and Wales

• Offender Assessment System and Offender Group Reconviction Scale: Research Summaries.

• Crime and Lifelong Learning: Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning thematic paper 5

• The Learning Prison

• Meeting Needs? The Offender Learning and Skills Service Forty-Seventh Report of Session 2007-08

• The Future of Prison Education Contracts: Delivering Better Outcomes

• Unlocking Potential- A review of education in prison

• What is Prison Education for? A theory of change exploring the value of learning in prison

• Beyond Bars: Maximising the Voluntary Sector's Contribution in Criminal Justice

• Prisons: planning and policies

• Prison Reform Trust: Inside Out

• Justice Committee - First Report Crime reduction policies: a co-ordinated approach?

• Furhter Education - Further Development of Loans: Expanding and Simplifying the Program