The plans were announced in the Reducing Re-Offending Through Skills and Employment green paper, published last month by the Home Office, Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Government wants to encourage agencies that work with young offenders to co-operate in finding placements, to develop learning programmes in line with the wider reform of 14 to 19 education, and to introduce targets for the number of young offenders who are engaged in work or training.
More general measures, which would apply to young people and adults, include building a requirement to take part in education into a sentence, a guaranteed interview scheme for ex-offenders, and introducing offender managers who would work with an individual throughout their sentence and after their release.
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