education

Reading for rehabilitation

[HMI Prisons (2026)]

Positive examples of prisons who have created a whole-prison reading culture.

Keywords: education, literacy

Getting Connected: Digital provision and education in prison

[Prisoners’ Education Trust (2025)]

An overview of current digital education provision and recommendations for creating a digital culture inside.

Keywords: education, IT, digital

Education, training & employment – evidence base (youth justice)

[HMI Probation (2023)]

Summary of evidence base in relation to ETE in youth justice settings. [From HMI Probation’s Research & Analysis collection].

Keywords: young people, education, employment

Effective practice guide: Youth Education, Training and Employment

[HMI Probation (2022)]

Based on a thematic review of ETE in youth justice settings. [From HMI Probation’s Research & Analysis collection].

Keywords: young people, education, training, employment

What works in prison education?

[Clinks (2024)]

Article commissioned by Clinks on best practice in prison education. [From the Clinks online Evidence Library].

Keywords: education

Ruth Mann Trophy submission: a 10-week equine prison programme, leading to a level 2 qualification, aimed at especially challenging and hard to reach young adults, with the aim of improving their engagement as well as their behaviour.

Keywords: education, complex needs

Lego League

[Wetherby prison (2022)]

Ruth Mann Trophy submission: a way to engage young people in education, build their confidence, and teach them problem solving and programming skills, by competing in teams to design, build and programme robots and solve challenges.

Keywords: young people, education

Prison education: a review of reading education in prisons

[HMI Prisons (2022)]

This research was conducted as part of Ofsted and HMI Prisons’ commitment to carry out a year-long review of prison education. Six prisons were visited and the findings are based on interviews with senior prison leaders, education leaders, teachers, librarians, prison officers and prisoners.

Keywords: education, reading

Hull TV

[Hull prison (2022)]

Ruth Mann Trophy submission: an in-house TV station, run by prisoners, providing information, education and entertainment to prisoners, and broadcast to every cell in the prison.

Keywords: training, education, communications

Restart Dogs

[Dovegate prison (2022)]

Ruth Mann Trophy runner-up: a project offering vocational qualifications to prisoners in dog training and behaviour, which provides wide-ranging benefits across the establishment and beyond.

Keywords: animal training, education, wellbeing