We can help with background, quotes and case studies, and can help arrange interviews with our members of staff as well as with people with lived experience of prison.
PET has been featured across national and local media, and also has a monthly column in the prison newspaper Inside Time.
For any media enquiries, please email press@prisonerseducation.org.uk or call 07824 189 661 on Monday to Thursday or 07968 493 098 on Friday and out of office hours.
It’s mad to cut prison education as improvement signs emerge, FE Week, 4 February
Government slammed after admitting “alarming” reduction in prison education provision, Inside Time, 3 February
Prison education time slashed by one quarter, MoJ admits, FE Week, 30 January
‘Add a London weighting to the discharge grant’, Inside Time, 19 January
Sadiq Khan told ‘break the stigma’ and help prison leavers into work as London unemployment grows, My London, 13 January
The introduction of earned release into prisons in England and Wales: A missed opportunity?, British Journal of Community Justice, January
Prison education: it’s time to bridge the digital divide, Russell Webster, 11 December
Rehabilitation at risk due to dire prison conditions, say MPs, Inside Time, 19 November
Labour-led committee voices ‘alarm’ over Government plans to slash prison education budgets, Daily Mail, 14 November
MPs examine education and employment for Welsh prisoners, South Wales Argus, 28 October
Teachers made redundant as prison education slashed by 20 per cent, Inside Time, 20 October
Prison governors fear cuts in classroom teaching, Inside Time, 30 September
Small gains in prison education at risk from budget cuts, Russell Webster, 29 September
No improvement for education of young offenders, FE Week, 25 September
Prison education cuts punish those most failed by the system, FE Week, 20 September
Cutting prison education is a calamity, The Spectator, 16 September
‘Bleak existence’ at London young offenders institute, FE Week, 27 August
New prison education contracts – more of the same?, Russell Webster, 14 August
New contracts but same old providers for prison education, Inside Time, 11 August
Existing providers win £1.5bn prison education ‘overhaul’, FE Week, 5 August
Getting ‘earned progression’ right, Clinks, 25 July
Movers and Shakers: Edition 500 – announcing PET’s new trustees, FE Week, 16 June
Who’s Moving: Prisoners’ Education Trust, RNIB and more – announcing PET’s new trustees, Civil Society, 9 June
Movers and Shakers: Edition 499 – announcing PET’s new trustees, FE Week, 9 June
Incentivising progression from custody to community, Russell Webster, 29 May
Put education at the heart of prison reform, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, 2 April
Government failures caused prison capacity crisis, say MPs, Inside Time, 18 March
Amid all the noise about the UK’s ‘two-tier’ justice system, there is silence on class, The Observer, 16 March
Prisons face ‘total gridlock’ in 2026 amid failure to increase capacity – MPs, The Independent, 14 March
Apprenticeship scheme for prisoners proves a flop, Inside Time, 5 March
Apprenticeships behind bars follows open jail failure, FE Week, 17 February
The same old story on prison education, Russell Webster, 3 October
Young offenders denied legal right to education, FE Week, 2 October
Children in youth offender institutions in England denied access to education, report finds, The Guardian, 2 October
Prisons ‘lack resources’ for inmates to learn their way to liberty, FE Week, 27 September
Unlocking potential in the prison system, inTuition, 22 September
Getting prison education right, Russell Webster, 4 September
Charity calls for review of prison education, Inside Time, September
Prison Education – Every bit as difficult, challenging, rewarding and essential as you thought, Teachers Talk Radio, 16 August
Young women’s education in prison, Russell Webster, 25 July
Life after prison: Battling homelessness and unemployment, City A.M., 25 July
Letter: Prison education is key to cutting costs and offences, The Financial Times, 19 July
Letter: Prison education should focus more on behaviour, The Financial Times, 28 May
The often overlooked population within our prisons, Community Living, 4 April
Learning behind bars: the state of prison education, THE – Times Higher Education, 3 April
People with lived experience enhance prison education, Russell Webster, 2 April
Education is at the heart of prison reform, The Guardian, 21 March
Prison Education unlocked: The system that’s failing its learners, FE Week, 27 February
Who’s Moving – announcing PET’s new Chair, Civil Society, 19 February
What works in prison education?, Russell Webster, 13 February
Movers and Shakers: Edition 451 – announcing PET’s new Chair, FE Week, 12 February
Apprenticeships: ‘Ground-breaking’ prison pilot flops, FE Week, 26 January
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