Program directory · Correctional Service Canada

Offender Education

Department

Correctional Service Canada

Program code

BUK08 (CSC)

Core responsibility

Correctional Interventions

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Offender Education Program contributes to Correctional Interventions by providing offenders with knowledge and skills that contribute to the successful reintegration of offenders thereby enhancing public safety.

The key activities include conducting educational and learning disability assessments, and the delivery of education programs and services to offenders, such as those who:

1. Were assessed below grade 12 or its equivalent;

2. Unable to communicate proficiently in either official language;

3. Require additional secondary credits as a prerequisite to participate in other programs or employment opportunities; or,

4. Request a referral to post-secondary education and meet the academic prerequisites.

Education programs are interventions that provide offenders with literacy, academic and personal development skills. Through educational achievements, offenders may receive formal recognition, certification, or accreditation from an educational authority recognized by the province through which the program is accredited.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.