People with convictions workshop
At the start of July, Kat Barrett and I had the pleasure of hosting the first Midlands Employer Alliance workshop focused on recruiting individuals with criminal records.
We brought together people who have a shared mission to help employers see the untapped potential of people with convictions - who, given a second chance, can become some of the most loyal and hardworking employees. With recent announcements about prison overcrowding and the appointment of James Timpson as Prisons Minister, the timing couldn't have been better.
Recruiting ex-offenders requires more than just good intentions; employers need dedicated support and some systems change to make it easier.
Our workshop brought together those who have pioneered ex-offender recruitment as well as those that don't know where to start or are at the beginning of their journey. We also invited key organisations including the West Midlands Combined Authority, and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), as well as a couple of business networks and some support organisations too.
This brilliant mix of people and responsibilities gave us bags of insight to begin to develop a robust and actionable plan to help employers lower barriers and intentionally target ex-offenders for their roles.
This is exactly what we at ReGenerate created the Good Jobs Project to do.
Over the coming weeks and months, we'll be sharing quite a few updates from the project, so stay tuned.
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