Prisons: Staff Safety

Debate between Lord Trefgarne and Lord Faulks

Monday 11th July 2016 Lords Chamber

[Lord Faulks]

The noble Lord is of course right that the challenges are not entirely new and that the logistics of ensuring that prisoners are taken to courses and to facilities where they can obtain education will always be a challenge, particularly with a large prison population. There was a report by Dame Sally Coates into the education of prisoners. That they should be given education is clearly very much at the heart of the advantage we believe can be obtained by rehabilitation, and it will be up to prison governors in a particular prison to ensure that this happens. They will be judged by the delivery of this education. By giving greater autonomy to prison governors it will be much less easy for them simply to say, “This is all too difficult”.

[Lord Trefgarne (Con)]

My Lords, is my noble friend satisfied—