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Information on the education, training or employment (ETE) status of each prisoner due for release is recorded on the Prison Service’s PSimon database for KPI monitoring.
The following table shows an increase of 9 per cent. in prisons’ compliance with recording over the past three years, along with a 23 per cent. rise in ETE outcomes. ETE outcomes also include those who attended FRESHSTART appointments at Jobcentre Plus. FRESHSTART is the initiative whereby prisoners who do not have a job or training place to go to on release are linked into employment, training and benefits advice and support immediately after release.
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 Discharges 86,353 87,449 85,685 Information Recorded 77,188 82,650 83,991 Information Recorded (percentage of Discharges) 89 95 98 ETE outcomes (inc. FRESHSTART ) 21,327 33,946 41,146 ETE outcomes (inc. FRESHSTART ) as percentage of total discharges 25 39 48