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Recruit With Conviction In Partnership: Positive Prison What is RWC? Recruit With Conviction is the national campaign to promote safe and effective recruitment of people with criminal records. Our purpose • Business benefits from access to the untapped potential and talent which exists among people with convictions. • Community benefits from reduced crime. • Individuals benefit from the hope and opportunities that a job brings. What RWC offer • Not-for-profit company; Started off as a social media campaign; • For CSR. Businesses contribute to the safety of communities by engaging with RWC. • For HR Specialists – Policy and procedure for recruitment and retention of people with criminal convictions; Provide access to a wider and more diverse pool of talent; Sharing best practice and networking among the HR community. • For Recruiters, Managers & Supervisors – Recruitment of people with convictions is daunting for anybody. RWC training supports businesses to overcome some of these fears and to understand obligations • For Mainstream Employability Advisors- 1 in 3 benefit claimants have criminal convictions; Employers have so much access to criminal records. However employability services for offenders are increasingly delivered by mainstream providers (Apply with Conviction) Some Key Information • The voluntary sector has twice as much involvement in recruiting ex-offenders than the private sector • Only 1 in 7 organisations ask job applicants if they have a criminal record • 20% of organisations say that their experience of employing exoffenders was better than expected • Main reasons for positive experiences with ex-offenders – Settle into work well with colleagues – Perform well • Retention rate is equal to or better than those with no criminal record Some Key Information (2) • Employers are more worried about offenders having the soft skills of honest, reliability and personal behaviour than technical skills • Most organisations with experience of employing ex-offenders consider sexual offences to be the greatest cause for concern • Driving offences are of the least concern to employers • More than 2/3rds of employers would find guidance on risk assessments and safeguards useful when employing people with criminal records • 1 in 3 men and 1 in 10 women have a criminal conviction. Only 2 per cent of these result in a custodial sentence and 0.1 per cent are high risk (like sex offences) Apply With Conviction • Helps employability (plus specialist advisers like drug and alcohol advisers) to give best advice regarding disclosure • Specialist area of support • Delivering training to advisers across England-shire at the moment • Scotland next Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1975 • • • • Stakeholder events for Scottish Government 300 businesses across 6 venues over 6 weeks Informs decision making process Unlikely to result in legislation before Independence referendum! • Separate legislative process in Scotland Ban the Box AMBASSADORS Learning in Prisons • Grundtvig partnership programme started late 2013 • Watch this space……………….