Employability: Bringing the bar-riers down
Colin Cottell
15 March 2018
An initiative between industrial manufacturing firm Jablite and HM Prison (HMP) Ford is revealing the benefits of an enlightened approach to those detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
A survey commissioned by the DWP in 2016 found that 50% of employers would not consider employing an ex-offender, regardless of the offence or sentence received. With the UK’s prison population standing at more than 84,000 that equates to a lot of people, whose lives are plagued by unemployment. Despite job vacancies in the economy standing at more than 800,000,...
