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Written Question
Employment: Offenders
Friday 13th March 2020

Asked by: Baroness Wheatcroft (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage employers to take on ex-offenders.

Answered by Lord Keen of Elie

The Ministry of Justice is committed to increasing the number of employers that provide employment for ex-offenders.

The New Futures Network (NFN) was established as a specialist part of the prison service that brokers partnerships between prisons and employers. These partnerships help businesses fill skills gaps and prisoners to find employment on release. NFN continues to work across England and Wales to engage employers to employ ex-offenders and support them to do so.

We also understand that employers want ex-offenders to leave custody job-ready and so this Government committed in its 2019 Manifesto to deliver a Prison Education Service, with a key priority being to enable more prisoners to find employment on release.