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Businessman making prison work
Businessman making prison work
Last Modified: 11 Feb 2008
By:
Rags Martel
One businessman is using prisoners to help plug a shortage in the supply of cleaners.
How would you feel if you had a cleaner who was a convicted burglar?
A shortage of cleaners has forced one businessman to go to prisoners still serving their sentences to help plug the gap.
Channel 4 News at Noon was given exclusive access to the scheme at Birmingham jail, and has found that other businesses are also looking at convicts for possible employment.
The scheme is run by Lloyd Ansermoz, a company boss who also chairs the Asset Skills Cleaning Board. Asset Skills is a sector skills council - a government organisation tasked with ensuring there are enough skilled workers in the cleaning industry.
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