Failure to teach prisoners to read a ‘missed opportunity’, says Ofsted

More than half of prisoners have the reading age of a child

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Prisons are failing to teach inmates to read which leaves them more likely to reoffend, a damning Ofsted report has warned.

More than half of prisoners have the reading age of a child, but they are not being taught to read while serving their sentences, which is a “huge missed opportunity”, inspectors said.