Latest figures show that women offenders in young offender institutions receive an average of 31.36 hours of learning and skills per week. Separate data for women are not collected in secure training centres and secure children’s homes but the figures for all young offenders are that 99.4 per cent. of young offenders in secure training centres and 79.9 per cent. in secure children’s homes receive 30 hours of education, training or employment activity a week.
(a) Education delivery is supervised by the head of learning and skills in young offender institutions and by the head of education in secure children's homes and secure training centres. In young offender institutions, the Learning and Skills Council funds and commissions provision through the Offenders Learning and Skills Service. Secure training centres and secure children's homes hold contracts with the Youth Justice Board which set out the requirements for education delivery.
(b) Ofsted inspect and regulate to raise standards in education and skills. Young offender institutions are inspected by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons and they invite Ofsted to inspect the education and skills provision. The Commission for Social Care Inspectorate inspects secure training centres and secure children’s homes and invites Ofsted to inspect education. Inspection occurs through a mixture of unannounced and planned inspections. The responsibility for implementing the recommendations made in the inspection reports lies with the head of learning and skills in young offender institutions and the head of education in secure training centres and secure children’s homes.