Work & Education at Wandsworth

The courses run at Wandsworth by Manchester College, who took over the education provision in late 2014,  include Literacy, Numeracy, IT, Key Skills, Information Technology, Industrial Cleaning, Catering, Gardening, Waste Management, Tailoring. There is also a radio programme production skills course and the prison runs Radio Wanno which produces radio shows for broadcast within a number of UK prisons.

There is a Bricklaying Training Centre in partnership with Laing Construction (providing skills training and employment on release); plastering; multi-skills offering plumbing, carpentry, painting and decorating and electrical; tailors; bicycle maintenance centre; IT and data cabling in partnership with CISCO, Bovis and Panduit.

The prison offers the usual array of orderly jobs to prisoners, depending upon their individual risk assessments

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