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The recruitment process for Blue Sky starts upon release from prison. Once with us, employment begins with on-the-job training for a one-month trial period. If successful, our people progress onto a longer contract, typically six-months in length.

Employees are mentored and led by supervisors who have faced the same challenges. They typically work in small teams of one supervisor to 4-5 team-members.

Blue Sky equips its employees with the necessary social and work skills to tackle this key transitional phase into employment. This is probably the key intervention to breaking the cycle of re-offending. (75% of ex-offenders have no job on release, yet employment can reduce the incidence of re-offending by up to 50% *)

Employees have the chance to leave Blue Sky with a clean employment record and a good reference.

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