prisoners to have access to apprenticeships for the first time to help cut crimescheme to provide job-based training in key industries and boost local employersgame-changing move to get more ex-offenders into jobs and cut £18 billion cost of reoffendinglaunch comes in National Apprenticeship Week celebrating the positive impact apprenticeships bring to employers, individuals, and the economy.Polling published last year found that nine out of ten businesses that hire ex-offenders say they are reliable, good at their job, punctual and trustworthy. Currently prisoners are unable to take advantage…