The YOI has just completed the first run of a course teaching young prisoners how to start their own businesses. The training aims to give young offenders the skills needed to set a business up from scratch or find a route into employment on leaving the jail.
The four-day course has sessions teaching young people how to market their business, deal with sales and employ staff. The course culminates in pitching their idea to a Dragons' Den-style panel. The panel includes the prison governor, course tutor, the YOI's educational manager and a representative from Barclays Bank, which has given £9,000 to fund the training. Seven young people have completed the first round of the course, with the YOI hoping for 40 young people to complete it throughout the year.
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