Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2019 to Question 236498 on Prison Officers: Training, how many prison officers and prison custody officers have received the Offender Manager Key Worker skills training in each (a) publicly and (b) privately operated prison.

Offender management in custody is a vital part of our work to make prisons safer. It will develop more rehabilitative prisons to deliver supportive environment for both prisoners and staff.

Since March 2017, we have offered 13,260 training places for Offender Manager Key Worker Skills to the closed male estate, of which 9,361 places have been taken.

Of the 78 prisons in the closed male estate, we have completed our planned training dates into 66 prisons and the remaining 12 are ongoing. In addition, we have offered additional dates to the establishments which have finished their bulk of training but have staff returning from long-term sick or maternity leave.

In our privately managed prisons, 1,296 prison custody officers have completed the offender Manager Key Worker skills training.

The women’s estate has only recently introduced key worker role and this data is not yet held centrally.