Education and training charity Rathbone is to run a 300,000 pilot resettlement project that will influence the development of the Learning and Skills Councils work with young offenders.
The Learning and Skills Council is in the process of taking over responsibility for prison education from individual institutions, and will be evaluating the Rathbone project.
During the six-month scheme project workers will go into Feltham, Huntercombe, and Warren Hill Young Offender Institutions to deliver training to inmates. They will then continue to work with the young people after release, to help them integrate back into the community. More than 100 young people are likely to be targeted.
The Youth Justice Board and the Learning and Skills Council are jointly funding the project.
