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Section 2. Respect 2.90 In our survey, prisoners were more positive than the comparator about the range of goods available to buy in the prison shop. The prison operated its own on-site shop, which meant that new arrivals could often access their first shop order on the day they arrived. Consultation arrangements were good, and the range of goods available was extensive. Arrangements for prisoners to shop from catalogues were not as good, with a large backlog of orders waiting to be processed and a delivery charge of 50p added to each order. Recommendation 2.91 Prisoners' catalogue orders should be processed promptly, and they should not be charged for such orders. 44 HMP Doncaster
Section 3. Purposeful activity Section 3. Purposeful activity Time out of cell Expected outcomes: All prisoners are actively encouraged to engage in activities available during unlock and the prison offers a timetable of regular and varied activities. 9 3.1 Although prisoners had adequate time out of cell, residential officers did not encourage them enough to attend scheduled activities or challenge the many who refused to engage in purposeful activity. 3.2 The prison's published activity schedule for prisoners (the core day) indicated that a fully employed prisoner could achieve over eight hours a day out of their cell on a weekday. This included short periods of association in the early evening and daily domestic periods that were rarely cancelled. Time out of cell was about six hours a day for a significant number who were in activities part time, and about four hours for those who were unemployed. All prisoners had about six hours a day unlocked at weekends. However, in practice, many prisoners did not engage with the prison regime and refused to attend scheduled activities. Residential officers did not challenge prisoners sufficiently about this, and so many spent long periods needlessly locked in their cells (see also paragraph 2.5). During roll checks in the middle of the core day, we found between 47% and 50% of the population locked in their cells. (See main recommendation S43.) Prisoners had reasonable access to exercise outside, with most allocated 30 minutes a day. Learning and skills and work activities Expected outcomes: All prisoners can engage in activities that are purposeful, benefit them and increase their employability. Prisoners are encouraged and enabled to learn both during and after their sentence. The learning and skills and work provision is of a good standard and is effective in meeting the needs of all prisoners. 3.3 Learning and skills and work were not effective enough. Although there were sufficient activity places these were underused, and managers did not have enough accurate information to fill vacant positions quickly. The range of education courses was appropriate and emphasised the improvement of prisoners’ mathematics and English skills. The quality of education and vocational training was good, and there were to be more opportunities for prisoners in prison work to gain accredited qualifications. Attendance, particularly in education, was poor and weakly managed by wing staff, particularly for young adults. The achievements of prisoners who did attend education, training and work were improving and good, although still too low in functional skills in English at entry level. The library provision was good but too few prisoners could use it. 3.4 Ofsted 10 made the following assessments about the learning and skills and work provision: 9 Time out of cell, in addition to formal ‘purposeful activity’, includes any time prisoners are out of their cells to associate or use communal facilities to take showers or make telephone calls. 10 Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. It reports directly to the UK Parliament and is independent and impartial. It (inter alia) inspects and regulates services that provide education and skills for all HMP Doncaster 45
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