JAMES KING HEAD OF OFFENDER LEARNING CILIPS CONFERENCE, DUNDEE JUNE 2015
Aug 16, 2015
JAMES KING
HEAD OF OFFENDER LEARNING
CILIPS CONFERENCE, DUNDEE
JUNE 2015
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Our Vision:
Helping to build a safer Scotland - Unlocking Potential - Transforming Lives
OUR MISSION:
Providing services that help to transform the lives of people in our care so they can fulfil their potential and become responsible citizens.
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We deliver this through:
Custody : Managing safe and secure custodial environments Order : Providing stability and order that helps offenders to transform their lives Care : Supporting wellbeing and treating with respect and humanity all in our care Opportunity : Providing opportunities which develop the potential of our staff, our partnerships and the people in our care
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“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty…………..Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.”
Kofi Annan 1996
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Award Winning Prison Magazine, HMP Shotts, near Glasgow
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PRISON LIBRARIES:
What did we find?
• LOCATION AND ACCESS• INTERIOR ENVIRONMENT• ACCESS TO INFORMATION• WELCOME, FRIENDLY AND
ATTENTIVE• COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT• STOCK• SERVICES AND SERVICES
PLANNING
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HMP Grampian: Setting the standard
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HMP Perth: Behind the Lines, community links
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HMP Perth
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HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow is Scotland’s largest prison holding around 1,400 prisoners.
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HMP Barlinnie: Key links with the Mitchell
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HMP & YOI CORNTON VALE
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HMP & YOI CORNTON VALE
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Scots Language Projects
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” William Butler Yeats
“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Thank you