Solving Recruitment Challenges
AND Making A Difference to Real People, Real Families, Real Businesses and Real Communities. In today’s critical labour shortage, Government and business leaders are forging a new era in creating second changes by developing new relationships between the UK’s prisons network and the commercial sector. Business chiefs from Murphy, Gallagher Group, Timpson, Cook and many others including Safer Highways member Solar Gates UK, have pledged to employ hundreds of ex-offenders. By Neil Sampson and Anna Blake Solar Gates UK
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t the first National Prison Employment Advisory Board (EAB) Conference, hosted at Timpsons’ Manchester based training centre, a host of prison governors and business leaders heard real life stories and the huge differences these second chances make to real people, families, businesses, and communities. The Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Victoria Atkins MP laid out the governments’ plan to streamline this ideal into a reality for employers and ex-offenders alike.
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