{"id":18052,"date":"2019-07-01T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18052"},"modified":"2019-07-01T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:34:49","slug":"oasis-will-run-the-uks-first-school-for-young-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/oasis-will-run-the-uks-first-school-for-young-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis will run the UK\u2019s first school for young offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oasisuk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oasis Charitable Trust<\/a>, a charity focused on helping more than thirty communities across the United Kingdom, has been awarded a contract, which will transform the Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent into the first British \u201csecure school\u201d by the end of 2020.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea behind this project is to create a safe learning environment for young offenders, who are still in their school years. <strong>To aid Oasis in this noble mission, the UK Ministry of Justice has allocated five million pounds (GBP5m) to support the project.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2016, concerns for young offenders were on the rise, after a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/577103\/youth-justice-review-final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Charlie Taylor, an expert on behaviors, revealed that nine out of ten young offenders were expelled from school due to absence.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since that report was released, the UK government has been actively trying to figure out a solution to the problem of education among young offenders. <strong>The Oasis contract is a step towards bettering the school environment for children and young adults with behavioral issues, which led to their offender status.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Rev. Steve Chalke, who is the creator of the Oasis Trust:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">every young person is capable of change and of making more positive choices about their life and their future.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Medway Secure Training Centre is part of a nationwide program initiated by the Ministry of Justice, which will aim to emphasize on the education and health of young offenders so that they have better prospects of returning to a healthy lifestyle. <strong>The main goal of these \u201csecure schools\u201d will be to help pupils go through their exams successfully, and attain a high-school diploma.<\/strong> This level of education is a necessity for the further development of students in universities, colleges, or personal careers.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oasis Charitable Trust, a charity focused on helping more than thirty communities across the United Kingdom, has been awarded a contract, which will transform the Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent into the first British \u201csecure school\u201d by the end of 2020.\u00a0 The idea behind this project is to create a safe learning environment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[1021,1251,1454,1577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}