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• For custodial sentences of less than one year, the one year proven re-offending rate was 9.4 percentage points lower for those who found P45 employment after release than for the matched comparison group.
• For sentences lasting one year or more, the one year re-offending rate was 5.6 percentage points lower for those who found P45 employment than for the matched comparison group.
• The time from release until first re-offence was longer for offenders who got P45 employment than for the matched comparison group, who did not get P45 employment.
The OASys assessment is used by prisons and probation services to measure the risks and needs of offenders under their supervision.
VII. Opportunity from Research
Use this assessment, to be able to be referred to as a supplier, of restorative justice, emotional support.
VIII. Understanding the sectors money flow
The Government is creating a nationwide network of around 70 "resettlement prisons". Nearly all offenders are released into the area in which they will live and be supervised. The plans will also see England and Wales divided into 21 areas, which align with local authorities and Police and Crime Commissioner areas. Private and voluntary sector organisations will then be invited to bid for work in these areas. The reforms will be rolled out across England and Wales by 2015.
These benefits are fundamental to many of the issues associated with Prisoner rehabilitation, resettlement and reintegration, victims and families affected by crime.
IX. GHTC Opportunity: Victim Offender Mediation Service
Lead practitioners Barry and Margaret Mizen, could deliver Victim-offender mediation, or VOM (also called victim-offender dialogue, victim-offender conferencing, victim-offender reconciliation,...

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...r experience over breakfast, lunch or dinner. This is followed by a visit were agreed outcomes and individual learning plan is assessed with the Skills and Capabilities Manager. The final previsit is an induction with full health and safety briefing and closes with a meet their mentor from the Foundation. All staff in the cafe have been recruited locally and from deprived diverse backgrounds, whom were on the brink of expulsion from school or gang affiliated.
The hospitality and catering accreditation are as follows:
1. iCQLevel 2 Certificate in Hospitality and Catering Principles (Housekeeping) (QCF)
2. iCQ Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Food and Beverage Service (QCF)
3. iCQ Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Food Production and Cooking (QCF)
4. iCQ Level 3 Award in Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Principles (QCF)
The courses above are completed within 196 hours (6 weeks).

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