Clinks Newsflash | Prison education commissioning

Four months in, how are you finding the Dynamic Purchasing System?

Clinks, National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) and Prisoner Learning Alliance want to hear your experiences of the new commissioning tool for specialist or short-term education services in prisons: the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS). Responses will be collated and fed back anonymously to Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service to support the development of prison education commissioning.

If you have delivered education services in prisons in the past, or would like to in the future, we want to know:

Have you registered on the online portal yet?
If you are registered, have you responded to any call-outs and have any of your bids been successful?
What do you think the benefits and/or disadvantages of the DPS are?

Please send your feedback to TrackDPS@prisonerseducation.org.uk by 31st May 2019.

In a blog published today, Jessica Plant, NCJAA’s Director, shares some of what she has heard so far from arts and voluntary organisations using the DPS. In it, she reflects on what the changes might mean for organisations working in prisons and how this might affect overall opportunities for people in prison.

Jessica writes,"Those working in the arts and voluntary sector are often the innovators, thinking up new ideas and approaches. But, as yet, we haven’t found many examples (though we would love to hear more of them) where the DPS has provided specifications that enable the sector to do what it does best.”

Read the blog here

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