Employability Pathways from Prison – CJS discussion Session Event Report
On 25 September 2025, Community Justice Scotland’s Engagement for Improvement team hosted an on-line facilitated workshop titled, “Employability Pathways from Prison”.
The workshop was split into 3 sessions; “Identifying available assets and resources”, “Defining and refining known difficulties and barriers” and “exploring how assets can be better deployed to address difficulties and barriers”. The format included presentation inputs from practitioners, partner agencies and experts by experience, and included ‘unconference’ style opportunities for participants to generate topics, themes and questions for exploration, and to identify key learning points and observations. Throughout the session, participants also contributed written observations, comments and engaged in discussion with each other via the ‘Chat’ function in MS Teams.
This report summarises the key points from the presenter inputs, participant questions, answers, discussion and practice sharing. The report uses a mix of paraphrasing and direct quotation as appropriate, including unattributed quotations from participants in the Chat. The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the presenters and participants and are not necessarily those held by CJS.