HMP & YOI Parc Learning & Skills Provision

Tender description

The Learning & Skills provision is to deliver a minimum of 600 adult and 60 Children Leaning & Skills activity places per day in educational blocks, house blocks, outdoor areas and vocational workshops and also deliver embedded learning throughout the prison supporting all vocational delivery establishment wide including workshops, PE department, healthcare and wing based etc. Lot 1: The Authority's key objectives for the Contract are to: • provide prisoners with education through delivery of Learning and Skills which better prepare them for employment and further education, and thereby contribute to the rehabilitative culture of HMP & YOI Parc and support the reduction of re-offending; • allow for the delivery of a ‘Whole Prison Approach’ to ensure the service provided is joined-up, streamlined and supports the integration of offender management, industries, custody, and health services; • Ensure a safe and secure mobilisation process. The Service – high level requirements • The supplier is required to design the provision to meet the learning needs of the prison population, the education and employment opportunities in the resettlement areas prisoners return to following release from custody and to fit the prison’s core day and operational conditions. • The supplier is expected to provide assessment and learning and skills places from the Service commencement date. • The supplier is required to deliver a minimum of 600 Adult and 60 Children learning and skills full time activity places each day in the Education building, house blocks, outdoor areas and vocational workshops. The supplier also has to deliver embedded learning throughout the prison supporting all vocational delivery establishment wide including workshops, PE department, healthcare, wing based, etc; It is expected that 50% of Adult workspaces will be provided with embedded learning. • The aim of the daily regime at the Prison is to create a balanced and integrated regime. All Prisoners will have the opportunity to be out of their cell and participate in learning activities except when the needs of safety and security prevent it, or a Prisoner is undergoing punishment including Basic Regime under the IEP scheme. • The supplier delivering Learning and Skills will share the vision for the prison and will have an important role in promoting the learning culture throughout the prison and demonstrate support for the organisational values and individual values. As real working environments, all prison facilities should be used in the delivery of learning including but not limited to: • Vocational workshops • Industries workshops provided by external contractors and in house • Kitchens • Physical education and gyms • Laundry services • Horticulture • Libraries • Outdoor vocational learning areas • Recycling unit • Wellbeing centre It is currently anticipated that the Contract will include the ability for the Authority to remove the YOI (Children's) element of delivery from Year 5 at no additional cost to the Authority, which would lead to a change of use from moving 60 prisoner spaces from Youth to Adult. Please see the Contract for further information.