Prison education contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most prison education contracts took 34% of them (98 of 292).
• The median contract, £27k, is 50% below the median across education & training contracts (£54k).
• London had the most contracts: 80, or 27% of the total.

1. 1Ministry of Justice292 contracts£90.5m

1. 1Shannon Trust45 contracts£2.4m
2. 2PeoplePlus15 contracts£472k
3. 3Kinetic Youth13 contracts£818k
4. 4Complete Skills Solutions13 contracts£330k
5. 5TWA Certifications Ltd12 contracts£337k
6. 6Green Skills Partnership CIC12 contracts£186k
7. 7N-ergy Group Limited11 contracts£290k
8. 8GLA Group Ltd10 contracts£374k
9. 9FTW Training10 contracts£220k
10. 10Beating Time (also known as Choirs Beating Time)9 contracts£154k

Latest

• Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Rugby Academy for Prisoners at HMP Oakwood (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1k

  Ministry of Justice to 3 Pillars Project CIO · Awarded 1 October 2026

• Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Construction Courses for Prisoners at HMP Doncaster (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £67k

  Ministry of Justice to Engage Train Support Limited · Awarded 1 October 2026

• Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Creative Reading Events for Prisoners at HMP Elmley (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £12k

  Ministry of Justice to THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST · Awarded 1 October 2026

• Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Literacy Support for Prisoners at HMP Exeter (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £14k

  Ministry of Justice to Shannon Trust · Awarded 1 October 2026

• Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Forklift Truck Courses for Prisoners at HMP Featherstone (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £17k

  Ministry of Justice to FTW Training · Awarded 30 September 2026

• Award of a call off contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Music course provision for prisoners at HMP Manchester (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £15k

  Ministry of Justice to Wings · Awarded 28 September 2026

• Award of a call off contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Bricklaying course provision for prisoners at HMP Northumberland (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £148k

  Ministry of Justice to Novus · Awarded 28 September 2026

• Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Rugby Qualifications for Prisoners at HMP Belmarsh (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £35k

  Ministry of Justice to 3 Pillars Project CIO · Awarded 28 September 2026

• Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Welding and Coding Courses for Prisoners at HMP Haverigg (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £40k

  Ministry of Justice to TWA Certifications Ltd · Awarded 24 September 2026

• Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Reading Support Courses for Prisoners at HMP Winchester (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £46k

  Ministry of Justice to Shannon Trust · Awarded 24 September 2026

Largest

• Prisoner Education Service Core Education Lot 10: West Midlands (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £80.0m

  Ministry of Justice to Novus · Awarded 16 April 2026

• Award of a call off contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Reading provision for prisoners at the London Region (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £601k

  Ministry of Justice to Shannon Trust · Awarded 26 August 2026

• Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Vocational training courses for Prisoners at HMP Haverigg (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £480k

  Ministry of Justice to Fusion21 · Awarded 17 May 2026

• Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Entry Level Maths and Reading Specialists for Prisoners in the Bedfordshire, Cambridge and Norfolk (BCN) regions (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £158k

  Ministry of Justice to Shannon Trust · Awarded 31 July 2026

• Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Youth Support Services at HM YOI Feltham (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £157k

  Ministry of Justice to Kinetic Youth · Awarded 18 August 2026

Education for people in prison bought on its own by HMPPS and the prison services: core Prison Education Framework or Prison Education Service contracts, and single vocational, employability, personal development and wellbeing courses called off the Prison Education DPS.

• Prison Education Framework contracts and extensions
• Prison Education Service core curriculum delivery
• Learner screening and assessment within the core contract
• Scaffolding and construction skills with CSCS or CISRS cards
• Traffic management tickets
• Gas safety and welding courses
• Dog training vocational programmes
• Self-employment courses
• Mediation and conflict resolution courses
• Yoga and mindfulness
• Creative arts curricula
• Sports-based life skills programmes
• Peer mentoring for learners
• Youth engagement in young offender institutions
• Cleaning, industrial cleaning and biohazard cleaning courses
• Education provision in young offender institutions

• Education inside a contracted prison operation (sec.custody.contracted-prison-operation)
• HGV licence training for prisoners (edu.tech.lgv-pcv-and-driver-cpc-training)
• Rail Personal Track Safety courses for prisoners (edu.tech.rail-track-safety-training)
• Employment and resettlement support for prison leavers and people on probation (edu.emp.offender-resettlement-and-employment-support)
• Careers guidance in prisons (edu.emp.careers-guidance-young-people)
• Awarding organisation services for prison education (edu.assess.qualification-development-and-awarding)
• Other rehabilitative services for people in prison (soc.abuse.rehabilitative-services-for-people-in-the-justice-system)
• Prison healthcare (another industry: healthcare)

• Skills bootcamps