Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Unpaid work: PI 04/2019Found: Peer mentoring has achieve d some success assist ing, encouraging and support ing people on probation
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Unpaid work: PI 04/2019Found: Peer mentoring has achieve d some success assist ing, encouraging and support ing people on probation
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure prison leavers are aware of the resettlement services available.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Effective resettlement of prison leavers is a core part of our efforts to reduce re-offending. This includes making sure someone has a home, family links where appropriate, access to healthcare, a job or further education, and/or access to benefits.
Probation practitioners in the community coordinate the overall rehabilitation of offenders as they leave prison and serve their licence, supported by Pre-Release Teams (PRT) who provide support to address identified immediate resettlement needs and pre-release support for all people in prison. The immediate resettlement needs of all prisoners are assessed on entry to prison and reviewed pre-release.
Utilising both prison-based services and Commissioned Rehabilitative Services (CRS), there is a wide range of resettlement support covering accommodation, employment, dependency and recovery, personal wellbeing and finance, benefit and debt services. CRS also offers a ‘mentoring’ service, which can be delivered pre-release and follow offenders through the gate for those being released on licence to support community integration. Community probation practitioners and PRTs work proactively with prisoners to build pre-release plans and refer into these services to ensure that the right support is in place for release.
In addition, we have also introduced employment hubs where prisoners can access job vacancies and support with applications, and Prison Employment Leads who support with work-readiness and match them to jobs on release.
To further improve awareness for prison leavers, we are introducing Resettlement Passports, which will bring together key information and services that an individual needs in one place to resettle into the community, such as bank accounts, CVs and identity documents to prove the right to work and rent, as well as appointment and contact information to enable prison leavers to engage with resettlement services available.
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department spent in the last 12 months on (a) in-work and (b) other training on (i) coastal restoration, (ii) the protection of coastal and marine ecosystems, (iii) monitoring, (iv) enforcement and (v) sustainable recreation; how much he plans to spend on each of those areas in the next 12 months; and whether his Department employs apprentices.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The requested information on training spend is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.
Core Defra Marine and Fisheries staff and employees of Defra’s marine Arm’s Length Bodies undertake a range of training and learning and development (L&D) opportunities covering a wide range of topics including coastal restoration and the protection of marine ecosystems, monitoring, enforcement, and sustainable recreation. Training is delivered through a range of means, including for example on the job learning, attending courses, peer to peer learning, conferences or talks, membership of professional bodies/learned societies, reviewing literature and mentoring. There is no mechanism through which we can give a specific amount that will be spent on those areas in the next 12 months. Every civil servant is supported to undertake L&D and expected to undertake the training necessary to their role. Detailed records are not kept at a corporate level on specific training.
The department does employ apprentices. As at March 2024 Defra Group currently has 880 active apprentices.
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: Public Sector Equality Duty report 2022/23Found: .............................................................................................. 6 Mentoring
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: The Smart Data Roadmap: action the government is taking in 2024 to 2025Found: offered access to a bespoke data sandbox to support use case prototyping and testing, as well as expert mentoring
Written Evidence Apr. 18 2024
Inquiry: Children, young people and the built environmentFound: adults 17 + volunteer to gain work experience, participate in Accredited Training and receive mentoring
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: Report of the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, April 2024: UK responseFound: gender aspects of corruption, and through the successful handover of the Mission’s flagship Gender Mentoring
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: The CMA at 10: Past reflections and a look ahead to the next decade of promoting competition and protecting consumersFound: them a range of services such as legal advice, finance investments access to professional networks, mentoring
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: Delivering a better DSA service for customersFound: It can also be used to pay for non-medical help, such as specialist mentoring or specialist study skills