This guide has been developed to support those working in prisons to offer a good range of high-quality formal and informal learning. It takes the user through the process of designing a curriculum - from beginning to end.
This report brings together ideas about training, supporting, and developing the prison teacher workforce. It sets out a vision of prison education as a meaningful career choice embedded in the mainstream teaching route, and makes a series of recommendations.
Based on interviews with over 50 staff in ten prisons, the report explores the challenges Governors and senior staff are facing in leading and managing prison education, in the light of the new contracting and commissioning arrangements.
In September this year, the Prisoner Learning Alliance submitted evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ inquiry into black people, racism and human rights.
Read our written evidence and recommendations in response to the Education Select Committee's Inquiry, Education: Are prisoners being left behind?
In May, the PLA submitted written evidence to the Education Select Committee on the impact of Covid-19 on education and children’s services. Read the full text, including key points and recommendations, here.
Our briefing looks at the use of digital technology in prisons from Spain to Australia, of in-cell tablets to virtual reality headsets. We hope that England and Wales can learn from some of these lessons from abroad.
This guide has been developed to support those working in prisons to offer a good range of high-quality formal and informal learning. It takes the user through the process of designing a curriculum - from beginning to end.
This blog series - written by prison educators - highlights the variety of careers in prison education, and the variety of career paths leading towards them.
This report brings together ideas about training, supporting, and developing the prison teacher workforce. It sets out a vision of prison education as a meaningful career choice embedded in the mainstream teaching route, and makes a series of recommendations.
Developed by Claire Collins for the Prisoner Learning Alliance, these materials focus on education approaches and resources that can be used by teachers to support cell-based prison education.
The Prisoner Learning Alliance (PLA) very much welcomes the opportunity to respond to this consultation on the Prisons Strategy White Paper.
This submission has been written after receiving written responses from, and having conversations and focus groups with members, including people with lived experience of prison and prison tutors.
The Curriculum Working Group, established this year, have been meeting regularly to discuss how PLA can influence the prison education curriculum, and the changes that educators and prisoners would like to see.
Read our written evidence and recommendations in response to the Education Select Committee's Inquiry, Education: Are prisoners being left behind?
In September this year, the Prisoner Learning Alliance submitted evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ inquiry into black people, racism and human rights.
Education providers stopped working in prisons on March 23rd 2020, and prisoner learners have been without taught education throughout this time. We believe that the ongoing restrictions for prisoners during lockdown are disproportionate.
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