Aims: To teach young offenders skills in business and enterprise
Funding: 75,000 a year from the Scottish Executive's Determined to Succeed grants scheme
A project helping young offenders gain business skills has been proving popular at Polmont Young Offender Institution.
With funding from the Scottish Executive's Determined to Succeed scheme for enterprise in education, Young Enterprise Scotland has been working in Polmont for the past two years.
Stuart Miller, chief executive of Young Enterprise Scotland, says: "Young offenders are often very enterprising, but in the wrong way. I firmly believe that enterprise and learning should go together, and over the past two years we have spent time working with underachieving and vulnerable young people."
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