The total number of prisoners who have education, training or employment (ETE) secured upon release are shown in table 1 for each of the last five years.
Further data, recording those persons entering and sustaining employment/training four weeks following commencement, for both offenders released on licence and those serving community orders is shown in table 2. It is not possible to separately identify those that had a custodial sentence without incurring disproportionate cost.
There is no recorded data relating to employment or training placements sustained after four weeks.
Employment on discharge Education and training on discharge KPI outturn employment KPI outturn employment KPI outturn training and education 2003-04 — — 35,530 — — 2004-05 — — 41,146 — — 2005-06 — — 42,879 — — 2006-07 — — 40,573 — — 2007-08 24,340 9,622 — 27.0 10.7 Notes: 1. KPI outturn for 2003-04 based on an end year resettlement survey. 2. Outcomes up to and including 2006-07 include those who attended Freshstart appointments at Jobcentre Plus, 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. Prisoners attending counted as half a point. Data showing have already been calculated as half a point. 3. Between 2003-04 and 2006-07 there was one measure for number of prisoners released into employment, training and education. 4. For 2007-08, the resettlement measure is expressed separately for employment, training and education. There are separate targets for the proportion of prisoners who have employment, and the proportion who have training and education upon release. Job Centre Plus data no longer included in the KPI from 2007-08.
2006-07 2007-08 Job entries All persons supervised by Probation Service England and Wales total 19,926 22,006 Employment sustained for four weeks All persons supervised by Probation Service England and Wales total 14,248 16,823 Notes: 1. Data were not recorded prior to 2006-07. 2. Latest available full year data.