Skip links
Novus Foundations for Change
What we do
What we do Education and Training Creative Arts Adult Provision Youth Provision Our Locations
Work with us
Work with us Partner Employers Employer Charter Adult Provision Partnerships Youth Provision Partnerships
Careers
Prison Education Jobs Teach With Novus
About
About us Mission, Vision & Values Our People Our Story Our Conferences Our Podcast Equality and Diversity
News

Contact us

  • What we do
  • Work with us
  • Careers
  • About us
  • Latest news
  • Contact us
  1. Homepage
  2. News
  3. Andrew Selous MP to speak at Novus event

Andrew Selous MP to speak at Novus event

Partner


Wed 09 Dec 2015
MP Andrew Selous giving a speech

Andrew Selous MP will be delivering a speech at Novus’ Employer Engagement event in London today.

The Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation is one of the speakers at the eagerly-anticipated event at the Grand Connaught Rooms.

Peter Cox, Managing Director of Novus, said: “We are delighted to welcome Andrew Selous MP today and look forward to hearing his speech.

“The aim of the Employer Engagement Event is bring together key partners and employers to take forward an integrated regional approach to improving the volume and quality of contacts between NOMS, Novus, partners and employers in the Greater London Region, in order to increase the number of offenders who find work on release and thereby reduce the re-offending rate.

“Working with employers will improve offenders' prospects in the job market - ensuring that our courses are relevant to employers' needs, and overcoming employers' resistance to employing ex-offenders.  It will thus contribute directly to reducing re-offending, and will benefit the offender, offenders’ families, and the communities that they return to.”

The overarching aim of the Greater London Region Learning & Skills strategy is to prepare prisoners for the successful transition into sustainable employment.  The priorities are to link the Learning and Skills delivery strategy with finding suitable and sustainable employment for prisoners upon release and develop strategies to engage employers in reducing re-offending. 

The Employer Engagement Strategy aims to engage with employers through a sector approach, to have a better understanding of the requirements of particular industries and to remove the barriers that prevent prisoners progressing into employment upon release.  The strategy targets employers in sectors that have significant skills gaps and/or who are receptive to recruiting ex-offenders. Local labour market information is used to identify potential employers to work in partnership with a range of organisations who are already involved with employers.

A Ministry of Justice report on the effect of employment on re-offending concluded in 2013 that P45 employment has a positive impact on reducing re-offending.

Novus enjoys an excellent working relationship with key partner NOMS.

Related Content

View All

News

Partner

Functional skills education and its impact on reoffending: Breaking the cycle of prisoner recidivism

News

Adult Provision / Partner / Youth Provision

Neurodiverse needs in prison education

Get in touch

Novus
Whitworth House
Ashton Old Road
Openshaw
Manchester
M11 2WH

Enquiries:

enquiries@novus.ac.uk
03333 222 888

Careers:

HRSharedServices@ltegroup.co.uk
0161 674 1363

Quick links

  • What we do
  • Work with us
  • Careers
  • About us
  • News
  • Contact us
  • Colleague HUB

Social media

Twitter Linkedin Facebook Instagram

Novus is a trading name of
LTE Group.

Copyright © LTE Group 2023

SEARCH:

  • Sitemap Terms of use Group Policies Accessibility Data Protection FOI