Promoting healthier lifestyles for prisoners - National Audit Office

How can I persuade them to prepare for life outside prison?Our Healthy Living coursesshowed that prisonerswere keen to learn aboutand to try out new foodideas. Now we’re planningmore. Morton HallWe’ve run two very successfulcourses – Smoking Cessationand a 12-module Healthy LivingCourse covering many of thesame topics. There’s a definiteshift in the right direction.Blantyre HouseAt Wayland, we offer an Open College Network“stand alone” nationally accredited qualification:“Nutrition, Performance and Healthy Eating. Werun this as a unit within our Health and FitnessProgramme. Students are required to keep ajournal, in which they keep a log of their physicalactivity, how they feel, and what they are eating.This helps prisoners reflect on their eating habitsand analyse the cause and effect. We plan to usea similar journal for prisoners enrolled on theCARATs programme.