The pilot, which has been tested on 40 young men aged between 18 and 21, uses coursework designed to increase participants' skills in areas such as team-building and communication, in a bid to help offenders access training or employment opportunities on their release.
After finding that 75 per cent of the initial pilot's participants at Reading prison had now moved into employment or training since its inception in 2001, the Trust is rolling out similar schemes to prisons in Portland in Dorset and Stoke Heath in Staffordshire.
The structure was set up using the Trust's existing 12-week personal development scheme, the Volunteers programme, which has an 11 per cent intake of ex-offenders. Results from the programme have shown that three in four ex-offenders then go on to education, training or employment.
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