Offender Learning
Motherwell College provides an offender learning and skills service in 7 of 14 public sector prisons. The College has been involved in the delivery of learning services to prisons since 1985 and has experience of delivering to all categories of prisoner including, remand, short-term, longterm, young people, males and females. Our Offender Learning and Skills Service employs almost 80 professional teaching staff, many of whom have in excess of 10 years experience of working in prisons.
The prisons in which Motherwell College provides a learning and skills service include:
- HMP Barlinnie
- HMP YOI Cornton Vale
- HMP Dumfries
- HMP Glenochil
- HMP Greenock
- HMP Low Moss
- HMP Shotts
For more information about the prisons please visit the SPS website:
www.sps.gov.uk/Prisons/prisons.aspx
Offender Learning Vision and Aims
Motherwell College aims to provide a learning and skills service which offers offenders a second chance, and equips them with the skills and knowledge required to reintegrate into society and move into employment and training.
The Learning Centres aim to:
- Provide a supportive learning environment;
- Engage the maximum possible number of students;
- Improve students' skills and enable them to achieve their potential;
- Increase students' self esteem, self respect and respect for others.
Offender Learning and Skills Services in Establishments
In line with the College’s contract with the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), staff currently provide programmes in literacy; numeracy; IT; art; citizenship; social studies; support for open and distance learning; and family learning. In detail the curriculum includes:
- Information, advice and guidance services, assessment and development of Individual 'Learning Plans';
- Literacy, communications and language skills;
- Numeracy and mathematical skills;
- ICT skills;
- The arts and personal and social development;
- Distance learning and open learning (via the Open University and other partners);
- Support for vocational training;
- Project based learning;
- Family learning.
For more information, please see the'Offender Learning Prospectus'.
Download Offender Learning Prospectus
All delivery is subject to inspectionby Her Majesty’s Inspector of Education (HMIe) under subcontract to HerMajesty’s Inspector of Prisons (HMIP).
For more information about Motherwell’s offender learning programmes please contact:
Kirsten Sams
Manager, Offender Learning and Skills
Tel: 01698 232201
Email: ksams@motherwell.ac.uk