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Skills initiative steers prison leavers into construction jobs

A new social value project is providing construction skills-based training to prisoners ahead of their release.

Constructed Pathways has brought together a consortium of industry experts to work with Sodexo-run HMP Peterborough and support a route into construction careers.

The project, funded by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, provides solutions to two challenges: prisoners struggling to secure stable employment and a severe labour shortage in the construction industry.

The consortium of HMP Peterborough, Constructed Pathways, Urban&Civic and NHBC will create a ‘source to sea’ approach, working with offenders throughout their training and onwards into gainful employment.

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