Eligibility for Screening. The Service Provider shall ensure that all prisoners are offered the opportunity to engage in the Screening processes indicated above in section 2.1.2.1 however, as a minimum, the following category of prisoners must be offered the opportunity to undertake the Screening process: · All convicted adult prisoners, sentenced to 6 months or more; · All convicted young offenders (those aged 21 and under); and · Any prisoner wishing to engage in learning activity. There will be no requirement to offer literacies Screening to individuals where there is evidence to support that there is no learning need (e.g. previous record of Screening or attainment at or above SCQF level 4) or where literacies Screening has been undertaken in the last 12 calendar months (in this case, the previous Screening outcome may be accepted). · The Service Provider will undertake literacies Screening utilising the Screening tool approved by the Purchaser on a 1:1, group, or in an environment with multiple Learners per Screening session. · The Service Provider will be allocated time slot(s) during induction to inform prisoners of the range of learning Services available and to carry out the initial Screening process if required (subject to agreement with the local Establishment). · The Service Provider will undertake skills / employability Screening[footnoteRef:5], as detailed within the establishment’s ALP. Eligibility for this Screening shall reflect the nature of the prisoner population in the Establishment and sentence length (e.g. prisoners with long term sentences may reasonably undertake employability / skills Screening at a later, appropriate point of their sentence, whereas the expectation is that short term prisoners particularly those whose sentence length provides a reasonable period to engage in Learning or developing skills would typically be screened within 1 month of admission to an Establishment). [5: The Service Provider notes that DWP Work Coaches operate within Scottish prisons and have a requirement at the pre-liberation phase to gather employability information about prisoners and/or to address benefit issues. DWP has reviewed the role and scope of Work Coach Activity within prisons and will seek to engage with, and interview those in custody at an earlier stage of their sentence and also at a pre-liberation stage. DWP may consequently refer prisoners to the in-prison learning & skills activity. ] Given the Purchaser’s desire to build baseline data in this area, emplo...
