National Apprenticeship Week takes place this week and it is the first time prisoners have been included. Entrepreneur James Tweed urges all involved to see the potential in training those with criminal records
Educating and training prisoners could cut crime and reduce the UK’s skills gaps, a tech entrepreneur says.
James Tweed, CEO of Cambridge-based Coracle which provides laptops to prisoners, says it is essential that apprenticeship providers consider working with prisoners.
Also, he points to an important legal change made in October 2022 when the Ministry of Justice and Department for Education lifted a ban on prisoners undertaking apprenticeships.
Since then major brands such as Greene King, Kier and Timpson have opened their apprenticeship programmes to ex-offenders.
