UCU Prison Education needs a payrise

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[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

“We have no garden to garden in as an extension to the classroom. The garden was bulldozed over to make way for a new build. We plant seeds in a pot in the classroom, watch them grow and then have to throw them away.” 🌱💔 https://t.co/RX1XgQFk1w

[Justice Unions Parliamentary Group @JusticeUnions]

After Labour’s Lauren Edwards warns “core #prison education provision has been cut by a quarter nationally under re-tendered contracts”, Minister @JakeBenRichards blames “real fiscal pressures” and reveals: “We are looking at working with the third sector and the private sector to ensure that we can provide adequate provision” @ucuprisoned 2/8

[Justice Unions Parliamentary Group @JusticeUnions]

Tory @Ashley7Fox highlights how, “next year, the Govt will spend more money on education in #prisons, yet it will actually commission 25% less by way of quantity of service” – asking: “Why is it doing such a poor job of commissioning education on behalf of the taxpayer?” Minister @JakeBenRichards admits there are “some issues with the contracts which the last Conservative Govt entered into” @ucuprisoned 3/8

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

Cuts to prison education being hidden, says watchdog https://t.co/zZxPb0u7nb

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

Thanks to @rach_hopkins for spotlighting the shocking job losses in prison education. We've seen at least 200 redundancies already, the real number will be higher - employers are stonewalling on figures and the govt refuses to step in. Absolute scandal! #PrisonEducation

[Justice Unions Parliamentary Group @JusticeUnions]

At Justice Questions this week, @rach_hopkins highlighted the importance of #prison education and raised warnings by @ucu @ucuprisoned that “recent changes to the education contract have triggered notable job losses” – with Minister @JakeBenRichards admitting “it’s not good enough at the moment”

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

@John_Podmore @HMIPrisonsnews @charlie_taylor6 Absolutely not to audit or enforce how education contracts are structured, but it can evaluate and comment on the effects such contracts have on conditions, quality, and treatment within its remit.

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

HMIP’s Just Passing Time report speaks of catastrophic cuts: up to 60% in some prisons, 1,200 teaching jobs lost. After 40 years of inspection, why hasn’t HMIP stopped this collapse in rehabilitation? #PrisonReform #Prisoneducation

[HMI Prisons @HMIPrisonsnews]

With the publication of the ‘Just passing time’ thematic review, Chief Inspector @charlie_taylor6, outlines the problems with current work and training provision in adult prisons and his concerns that cuts will make things even worse.

Read the blog: https://t.co/W7Wf5ZZSgS

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

@John_Podmore @HMIPrisonsnews @charlie_taylor6 It’s hard to read that educators do not see it as their responsibility to teach prisoners to read when the contract only allows delivery of commissioned services.

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

@John_Podmore @HMIPrisonsnews @charlie_taylor6 Indeed, but Oasis Restore was certainly recommended by HMIP. HMIP have been (rightly) critical of the curriculum on offer without commenting on the stranglehold of the contracts.

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

@Prison_Screw https://t.co/GNMjPaa7UR

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

HMIP’s Just Passing Time report speaks of catastrophic cuts: up to 60% in some prisons, 1,200 teaching jobs lost. After 40 years of inspection, why hasn’t HMIP stopped this collapse in rehabilitation? #PrisonReform #Prisoneducation

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

@John_Podmore https://t.co/GNMjPaa7UR

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

HMIP’s Just Passing Time report speaks of catastrophic cuts: up to 60% in some prisons, 1,200 teaching jobs lost. After 40 years of inspection, why hasn’t HMIP stopped this collapse in rehabilitation? #PrisonReform #Prisoneducation

[POA @POAUnion]

Prison officers call latest report a 'damning indictment' - Morning Star
https://t.co/uWK50wnJn3
Without an end to understaffing and overcrowding and investment in the prison estate the MOJ will never be able to deliver the rehabilitation programmes that prisoners need

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

@POAUnion https://t.co/GNMjPaa7UR

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

HMIP’s Just Passing Time report speaks of catastrophic cuts: up to 60% in some prisons, 1,200 teaching jobs lost. After 40 years of inspection, why hasn’t HMIP stopped this collapse in rehabilitation? #PrisonReform #Prisoneducation

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

Just Passing Time must be the last warning. HMIP must lead reform, not simply record failure.

Prison Educators, officers, prisoners & the public deserve better. @MoJUK @PrisonReform @guardian @thetimes @POAUnion @FEWeek @ucu @UKLabour

[UCU Prison Education needs a payrise @ucuprisoned]

Labour blames 14 years of Tory cuts - but pressed ahead with the same broken Prison Education Service. Why not pause, consult, rebuild? Continuity of failure isn’t reform.