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Boots joins empl

Boots has become the latest company to sign up to an employer-led programme designed to try to cut the rate of reoffending among prison leavers.

It said last week that its High Street retail outlets would be part of the drive to recruit ex-offenders, but it also intends to involve all the British-based parts of the business as well as key suppliers.

The Employers’ Forum for Reducing Re-Offending already includes companies such as shoe repairer Timpson, distribution giant DHL and Virgin.

'Right thing to do': Boots has signed up to a scheme aiming to reduce the rate of reoffending among prison leavers‘Right thing to do’: Boots has signed up to a scheme aiming to reduce the rate of reoffending among prison leavers

Having a job and home has been shown to improve dramatically the likelihood that ex-offenders will manage to stay out of trouble.

 

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