Serco welcomes Key4Life to London office for job mentoring session

This week, we welcomed young men serving community sentences to our office in London to take part in a jobs mentoring session, facilitated by our partner organisation Key4Life.

Key4Life is an organisation dedicated to reducing youth reoffending through a seven-step rehabilitation programme that builds confidence among prisoners and ensures ongoing support as they leave prison and enter the world of work. With funding secured from the Serco Foundation, Key4Life has been able to pilot its first EMS community programme, delivering support for young men with electronic monitoring tags for the first time.

In this week’s session, Serco colleagues met with young men participating in the Key4Life programme to provide support and training, including holding mock interviews, providing interview feedback and career advice, and sharing insights into different career pathways and areas of work, both within Serco and beyond.

Serco is deeply committed to prisoner rehabilitation and reducing reoffending. We work closely with Key4Life to deliver its programme at HMP Thameside and HMP Fosse Way, and we partner with them in providing employment support and opportunities at Serco for people with criminal convictions through our Pathways programme.

Stephen Grassby, Serco’s Chief of Staff and Corporate Affairs, said:

“It was a privilege to meet some of the young men taking part in the Key4Life programme. To help provide support for these individuals, to get to know them and hear their stories, and to witness their commitment to breaking the cycle of reoffending was truly inspiring.

“At Serco, we know what a transformative impact rehabilitation, and finding steady employment, can have on the lives of so many prison leavers, and we’re proud to not only provide mentoring, skills and training programmes in prisons, but to create real, sustainable routes into work here at Serco for people with criminal records.”