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Responsibility for offender learning passes to the LSC 31.07.06

From 31st July 2006, the LSC will take up responsibility for offender learning and skills across England. The LSC will manage planning, funding and delivery of the new integrated offenders' learning and skills service (OLASS) across all nine English regions, having already had responsibility for three development regions in the Northwest, Northeast and Southwest since 1 August 2005.

Over the coming year the LSC will invest £130 million from the Department for Education and Skills, together with a share of an additional £30 million of funding sourced from the European Social Fund, in improving the quality and quantity of offender education.

Jon Gamble, Director of Lifelong Learning Development, LSC commented: "Education and training has been proven to help reduce re-offending rates, but too many prisoners experience fragmented learning as they move between prisons or re-enter the community."

"By integrating offender education into mainstream academic and vocational provision we aim to break the cycle of failure that drives re-offending."