1. Developing Employability within Offender Learning A Community Model Matt Douglas, Dorset Probation Area 4 th December 2009

2. Offender Learning & Employability – Our Objectives Delivering the Right Mix of vocational, employability and life skills Identifying and meeting individual need Meeting stakeholder need Engagement Strategies – Offender, Offender Manager & Employer Working in Partnership

3. The Learning & Skills Menu in Dorset IAG, Assessment & Disclosure Vocational Risk Assessment Maths, English and I.T. Job Club Vocational / Employability – CSCS card, Cafe 63, Allotment Single Day Courses Life Skills – Amber, Female Course Embedding Skills – Community Payback, Offending Behaviour Programmes Community Delivery – Mainstream, ESF

4. Offender Engagement Engagement through sentence planning The referral model and core service / CP induction Linking up delivery – embedding referral routes Embedding Skills in Maths & English Recognising skills gained, inc. soft skills Employment focussed outcomes Vacancy Matching service Flexible learning – start times, rurality, restrictions Transport Opportunities for feedback Text SMS service Monitoring FTA / Attrition across provision

5. Stakeholder Engagement Link Officer & Case Manager role Magistrates Fora JCP Protocol Prisons Promoting the offender agenda to commissioners

6. Working in Partnership with providers and employers Sourcing local provision / specialist provision Training for partners & Employers Single point of contact Information sharing Supporting activity – disclosure, Vocational Risk Assessment Supporting offenders into mainstream / ESF provision Finding the Fit – Train to Gain Supporting partner providers to develop offender focussed services Bidding in partnership

7. Ongoing Development Employer engagement Responding to changes in local employment Protecting employment in community and custody Breaking the cycle of short term / transient employment Overcoming gender stereotypes in employment Peer mentoring Effective management of resources –Innovation and Creativity –Sharing best practice –Engagement vs. enforcement