Debates between Nicholas Dakin and James Wild during the 2024 Parliament

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Debate between Nicholas Dakin and James Wild
Tuesday 5th November 2024

(1 month, 2 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nicholas Dakin Portrait Sir Nicholas Dakin
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We value youth services, such as the Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme, that enable young people to develop new skills to turn their lives around. In fact, the D of E scheme is available in all five of our young offender institutions, and 36 people in YOIs were enrolled in the scheme in August.

James Wild Portrait James Wild (North West Norfolk) (Con)
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Last week I met former prisoners who had taken part in Greene King’s Releasing Potential scheme, which is now being expanded with two further training kitchens going into prisons to help people turn their lives around. What are the Government doing to boost such programmes, and the employment advisory boards that we set up, to ensure that while prisoners are rightly punished they are also rehabilitated?

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Sir Nicholas Dakin
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Such schemes and initiatives are exactly the sort of thing that this Government want to celebrate as best practice and replicate in other settings.