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Hiring with Conviction: Working Chance have published an employers’ guide to recruiting and supporting people with convictions.
Working Chance research provides the most up-to-date facts and figures about employer attitudes towards hiring people with convictions.
Working Chance says the inadequacy of the benefits system is both a reason why some women are swept into the criminal justice system, and the reason that they can’t escape it.
Black women with criminal records face harsher barriers to employment – report from Working Chance
Report from Prison Reform Trust and Working Chance, finds just 4% women were in employment six weeks after release from prison.
My first priority as Justice Secretary would be to lead by example, hiring an ex-offender as my diary secretary. By employing women with convictions the government could reduce reoffending at no cost to the taxpayer, while also creating life-changing opportunities for some of the most marginalised people in our society.
I would ensure that ex-offenders were included in the Ministry’s diversity quotas and that my staff, from top to bottom, were engaged in understanding the importance of inclusive hiring practices. I would also ensure all government contractors were obliged to implement the same measures.
On reflection, I probably had unrealistic expectations for what is a mainstream book. Vicky Pryce has been a positive voice for reform of women’s prisons since her release and is donating the royalties from Prisonomics to Working Chance, an excellent organisation which helps women with criminal convictions find work.
