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OLASS Roadshow in Manchester: Enhancing Skills and Rehabilitation for Offenders

On October 22, 2008, the OLASS Roadshow took place in Manchester, hosted by Anne Gornall of LSC North West. This event focused on key national and regional themes for OLASS development and outlined requirements for prospective tendering organizations. Key topics discussed included educational achievement for young people, adult skills enhancement, and integrated employment and skills strategies for offenders. The session provided a platform for organizations to engage, ask questions, and collaborate towards reducing re-offending and improving workforce participation across the North West and Yorkshire & Humber regions.

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OLASS Roadshow in Manchester: Enhancing Skills and Rehabilitation for Offenders

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  1. OLASS 3 ITT ROADSHOW, MANCHESTER 22nd October 2008 North West and Yorkshire & the Humber Regions Presented by Anne Gornall, LSC North West Welcome

  2. Purpose of this event • To explain the key themes, national and regional, underpinning the development of OLASS • For the regions to brief prospective tendering organisations on their requirements for OLASS • To provide prospective tendering organisations with the opportunity to ask questions about the process and the ITT

  3. Structure of this presentation • LSC priorities • Key issues for the regions

  4. LSC Priorities 01

  5. LSC Priorities • Young People • Raise the educational achievement of all children and young people • Narrow the gap in educational achievement between children from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers.

  6. LSC Priorities • Adult Skills • Proportion of people of working age achieving functional literacy and numeracy • Proportion of working age adults qualified to at least a full Level 2 and 3 • Proportion of apprentices completing full framework • Joint target with DWP/ JCP to move more people into sustainable employment and progression

  7. Key policies and strategies • Offenders must be part of strategies for the economically inactive • Leitch Review of Skills • Sub National Review of Economic Development and Regeneration • Welfare Reform – importance of integration of employment and skills (IES). IES Trials

  8. Key issues for the regions 02

  9. Sustainable work reduces re-offending

  10. Key Issues for Offenders • Effectiveness of partnership work and relationships • OLASS responds and develops with the wider reducing re-offending strategies • OLASS part of a joined up holistic approach • OLASS part of integrating employment and skills for offenders

  11. Key Issues for Offenders • Currency of OLASS curriculum • Seamless transfer from custody to community and vice versa • Effective IAG • Effective data and performance management

  12. Additional issues for Yorkshire & the Humber 03

  13. Additional issues Yorkshire & the Humber • Use opportunities afforded by MIAP to transfer learner data quickly and accurately between prisons, probation and providers • Enhance OLASS by other targeted core LSC provision • With HoLS, build on inspection results to ensure the region retains a leading national position in the quality of its learning and skills.

  14. Additional issues Yorkshire & the Humber • Work with establishments to deliver an integrated rehabilitation service where learning and skills is valued by the regime and the offender. • LSC funded provision supports the ambition of HoLS to develop as centres of excellence in learning and skills.

  15. 3 important points • Offenders are a key group in LSC’s Statement of Priorities • Increasing importance of the IES agenda and relevance to offenders • Effective partnership work

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