Delivering the watchdog’s annual further education and skills lecture, Matthew Coffey, Ofsted national director of further education and skills, said the way convicted criminals are worked with must be changed.
He called for the government to extend the incentives it is planning for the apprenticeship programme to those who train and employ ex-offenders, and also said there should be a review of the rules on disclosing a criminal offence after completion of a sentence.
Coffey pointed to Ofsted statistics that show no prison was rated outstanding for its education and training provision in the last four years, as evidence of a system that is not working.
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