The Education and Skills Select Committee raised concerns about the education of young offenders in a report published last March. These worries included the lack of funding for the teaching of young offenders aged 18- to 20-year-olds compared to juveniles aged 10- to 17-year-olds.
In its response to the report, the Government said it would produce a "strategy document" on prison education to answer these concerns. This will now take the form of a green paper, to be published by the end of the year.
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly told Young People Now: "Prisoners move from one prison to another, and don't necessarily have a track record of what they've been learning."
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