A humanitarian charity set up by a pharmaceutical entrepreneur is trying to fix some of the problems ex-prisoners face trying to find work. The Randal Charitable Foundation has helped produce a report suggesting ways to bring down re-offending rates and help plug current labour shortages.
The Leicestershire charity – set up by Morningside Pharmaceutical founder Dr Nik Kotecha OBE and Mrs Moni Kotecha – has helped The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) thinktank draw up the report which suggests how prison leavers could plug some of the one-million jobs currently unfilled and save billions of pounds of taxpayer money.
The report suggests that of the nearly 50,000 people leaving UK prisons each year, just three in 10 have a job six months later – leaving many at risk of reoffending.
