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The largest ever donation to a prison charity will quadruple the number of offenders getting job training to help turn their lives around.
The Clink Charity, which gives hospitality industry training to inmates, has been handed £6million by the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust.
The donation, part of a £12million programme, will mean the charity can increase the number of prisoners taking catering qualifications from 500 annually to 2,000 by the end of next year.
There are currently 11 Clink Kitchen projects, and by the end of next year they are due to be operating at 70 prisons. Christopher Moore, chief executive of The Clink, said the donations were a ‘game-changer’ that will help cut reoffending dramatically.
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Expansion of prison kitchen training scheme to cut reoffending
Thousands of offenders will be diverted away from crime by the expansion of a catering training scheme in prisons across England and Wales.
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the Clink Kitchens training programme to expand to up to 70 prisons
training reduces reoffending rates by 32% and will transform the lives and prospects of thousands of offenders
part of government’s commitment to build back safer by cutting reoffending, which costs the taxpayer £18 billion a year
Over the next 3 years, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and The Clink charity have agreed to extend their training programme, currently already operating in HMPs High Down, Cardiff, Brixton and Styal, to offenders working in an additional 70 prison kitchens.