Young people from our Dover education centre recently spent a day working towards the John Muir Discovery Award. The award encourages people to connect with, enjoy, and care for wild places.
This month Nacro Carlisle learners have been working with artist Charlie Whinney and Eden Rivers Trust to design and create a wooden sculpture aimed at getting people to think positively about the river Eden following the devastating floods that hit Carlisle and the surrounding areas last December.
We are delighted to have supported Supporting Professionalism in Admissions (SPA) in the development of this excellent guidance on fair admissions of students with criminal records; we would encourage all higher education establishments to read it.
Nacro welcomes the Justice Committee’s report of its inquiry on Young Adult Offenders and supports the Committee’s recognition of the distinct needs of 18-25 year olds in the criminal justice system.
Earlier this week, a senior HR adviser of a large national employer contacted me. She had just completed interviews for an office-based sales role she was recruiting for and the preferred candidate had disclosed a motoring conviction.
More needs to be done to tackle different rates of progress between disadvantaged young people and their peers in the education system, according to a new report by Nacro, launched in Parliament on 12 September.
Nacro today raised concerns about the government’s announcement to plough ahead with rent reduction for supported housing providers.
At our Recruiting Safely and Fairly training, we discuss practical and reasonable solutions to real-life case studies such as the one described above. Read more.
See Nacro’s Director of Housing, Joanne Drew response to the Joint Inspection Report by HMI Probation on Accommodation of homeless 16 and 17 year olds working with Youth Offending Teams.
We congratulate all young people celebrating their educational achievements today. Nacro learners have achieved outstanding results in 2016, contributing to our best year ever across our vocational education centres.
