Our learners are at the heart of what we do. We are committed to ensuring our ways of working and our policy priorities are guided by people with lived experience of prison education.
The expertise and experience of our learners and alumni helps us frame research and policy work, and grow and develop as an organisation.
Former learners help us better meet the needs and aspirations of future learners, and amplify the messages that we share with people in prison, the criminal justice sector and the wider public. In prisons, our workshops with learners have helped us improve the way we work.
PET Alumni Advisory Group
We began our Alumni Advisory Group in 2014. Currently the group has 11 members who meet quarterly and recruits new members once a year.
Members contribute to the ongoing development of PET’s work in various ways, including sitting on PET’s Quality Assurance Panel, which oversees our application process, and our Strategy Focus Group, which guides the implementation of our organisational strategy. Some members have been employed by PET as Lived Experience Consultants.
Group members also join the staff team on awaydays and at other celebration events.
Learners' stories
Every year, we fund around 1,700 courses for people in prison. Behind every one of them, there is a story.
Read them here
