Employability and Employment in Scottish Prisons: Working for Change

Description

The event brought experts in penal policy, employment law and business together to consider the kinds of legislative and policy reform that can better enable or encourage the intended or hoped for outcomes underpinning work in prisons in Scotland. Our plenary speakers were Teresa Medhurst, Director of Strategy, The Scottish Prison Service; Professor Douglas Brodie, Associate Principal and Executive Dean, University of Strathclyde and Professor of Employment Law; and Matt Fountain, CEO of Freedom Bakery.

We were joined by practitioners and experts working to improve people’s experiences of and opportunities for employment both during custody and upon release. In contributing to this conversation, this paper asks four key questions: Why does employment and employability in matter? Where have we got to so far? What could we do differently? and, How do we get there? or, as part of that – What questions should we be asking.

Period	19 Feb 2018
Event type	Workshop
Location	GlasgowShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National