Health & Safety

Health and SafetyBlue Sky’s employment criteria help us recruit the people who want to turn their lives around. We work with tried-and-tested rules designed to safeguard employees, contractors and the general public. These include:

  • We do not work with sex offenders.
  • All teams are supervised by a permanent member of staff
  • There are never more than 6 trainee employees to one team leader.
  • We operate a strict alcohol and drugs regime, reserving the right to make random tests
  • We will not employ people with unresolved anger management issues.

Because of our access to Prison and Probation Service data on our people we have a fuller picture of an individual’s past than most, if not all, employers. This allows us to work with contractors and, for example, Local Authorities, to supply them with team members who fit their requirements.
England and Wales release 90,000 prisoners each year; 60% of prisoners re-offend within 2 years.            Re-offending costs England and Wales £12 billion each year.            Employment reduces re-offending by 33-50% but 75% of ex-offenders have no job on release.

Source: “Reducing Re-Offending by Ex-Prisoners” produced by the Social Exclusion Unit in 2002.