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…have been disrupted. Boost self-confidence and self-esteem, when perhaps these have taken a knock. Help provide a stable pattern and routine in life. Help develop new skills, knowledge and experience…

Looking for friendly employers

…Trust to provide employment opportunities for people with convictions. Ringway set itself a challenge in 2007 to recruit a more diverse workforce and find young people who wanted to enter…

Case of Patrick – Spent convictions online jeopardising self-employment

…for it. He knew how difficult it would be to find work with a criminal record and took the decision upon release from prison to become self-employed. He invested significant…

Five years in the life of a person with conviction

…to become a member myself and started to contribute. In and out of employment After 12 months I accepted the fact that earning £30k a year was in the past…

Help Unlock challenge employment discrimination

I wanted to post a piece to get readers of theRecord involved in a project that Unlock is running to challenge the employment discrimination faced by people with convictions. As part…

Unlock comment: Ministry of Justice’s Education and Employment Strategy

Commenting on the Ministry of Justice’s Employment and Education Strategy, Christopher Stacey, co-director of Unlock, said: “Unlock welcomes today’s Education and Employment Strategy from the Ministry of Justice, which includes…

A clear cut career choice – training to become a barber whilst in prison

…commenting below Information – We have practical self-help information on self-employment/running your own business Discuss this issue – There are some interesting discussions related to self-employment on our online forum….