VocTech in the Criminal Justice System

This episode of The Edtech Podcast (@podcastedtech) was part of Ufi VocTech Trust’s ‘Week of VocTech’. 

Ufi champions the power of technology to improve skills for work.

They do this through various grantees and investments, and more recently through funding specifically to ensure the continuity of vocational learning in response to COVID.

Various guests on this episode tell us about some of the projects Ufi Voctech Trust have been supporting that are involved in vocational education across the criminal justice system. 

You’ll hear about:

• Providing access to learning environments
• Tailoring and adapting learning
• Assessing learning
• Creating employment opportunities

Follow the conversation using #VocTechPodcast and #WeekOfVocTech.

People

• Patrick Dunn, Project Account Manager, Ufi VocTech Trust
• Daniel Brown, Director, Meganexus | Twitter: @Meganexus_Ltd
• Lee Tavinder, NIACRO | Twitter: @LeeTav
• Kate Russell,  Senior Practitioner, NIACRO | Twitter: @niacro
• Nuala Trainor, Project Manager, Sentireal | Twitter: @nualatrainor1
• Sarah Cox, Director of Enterprise & Leadership Programmes at MyBE Awards | Twitter: @mybe_awards_ltd
• David Hore, Co-Founder & CEO / CTO, Fluence | Twitter: @DavidHore
• Cameron Holloway, Content Manager, Socrates Software | Twitter: @cameron8172

References for this episode

• Ufi Voctech Trust – Website, homepage
• Ufi Voctech – Twitter
• Ufi Voctech Trust – LinkedIn
• Ufi Week of VocTech – Website link
• Catch up on previous episodes of the VocTech Podcast series here – The Edtech Podcast website link
• What’s it really like to be in prison? – Link to Radio 4 series
• Meganexus – Website
• Meganexus – Twitter
• Dan Brown – LinkedIn
• New Futures Network – Twitter
• HMPPS – .gov website
• HMPPS – Twitter
• Niacro – Website
• Niacro – Twitter
• Lee Tavinder – Twitter
• Lee Tavinder – LinkedIn
• Kate Russell – LinkedIn
• Sentireal – Website
• Sentireal – Twitter
• Nuala Trainor – Twitter
• Nuala Trainor – LinkedIn
• CITB Northern Ireland – Website
• CITB Northern Ireland – Twitter
• Digital Change Makers – Website
• Digital Change Makers – Twitter
• MyBE Awards – Website
• MyBE Awards – Twitter
• Sarah Cox – LinkedIn
• Ready Player One – IMDb link
• Fluence – Website
• Fluence – Twitter
• David Hore – LinkedIn
• David Hore – Twitter
• Socrates 360 – Website
• Socrates 360 – Twitter
• Cameron Holloway – LinkedIn
• Cameron Holloway – Twitter

Thank you to the Ufi Voctech Trust

The Voctech Podcast Series is produced by The Edtech Podcast and supported by Ufi Voctech Trust.

Our aim is to help improve vocational skills in the UK’s workforce by funding digital solutions for vocational learning. We only fund activity that is ‘scalable’ through technology, ie projects that use digital methods to widen access to vocational learning. While digital learning solutions are potentially open to all, we are especially keen to assist digital projects which involve post-school age vocational learners that have failed to be engaged by the education system. Contact: [email protected], Head of Communications, Ufi Voctech Trust.

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