{"id":3148,"date":"2023-03-10T08:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2023-03-10T08:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:04:33","slug":"lets-turn-prisoners-into-apprentices-says-tech-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLet\u2019s Turn Prisoners into Apprentices,\u201d Says Tech Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">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<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">Educating and training prisoners could cut crime and reduce the UK\u2019s skills gaps, a tech entrepreneur says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">James Tweed, CEO of Cambridge-based Coracle which provides laptops to prisoners, says it is essential that apprenticeship providers consider working with prisoners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(242, 241, 236);\">Since then major brands such as Greene King, Kier and Timpson have opened their apprenticeship programmes to ex-offenders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businessnewswales.com\/lets-turn-prisoners-into-apprentices-says-tech-entrepreneur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 145, 77);\">Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}