# Prison Education Service Core Education Lot 3: Cumbria and Lancashire Group

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Ministry of Justice.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [Ministry of Justice](/buyers/ministry-of-justice/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [LTE Group \(trading as Novus\)](/suppliers/novus/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £46,000,000
- Tender value: £46,000,000
- Award date: 1 July 2025
- Published: 29 July 2025
- Contract start: 1 October 2025
- Contract end: 30 September 2032
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 91864ea3-665c-41f1-b2ba-02e1e9a6fd67-856627
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-3e9f2022-6b9a-4b94-9759-9bb7210c785c

## Description

This notice is for the award of Lot 3: Cumbria and Lancashire Group The Prisoner Education Services \(PES\) is a UK government initiative with three overarching strategic priorities; improving prisoner numeracy and literacy skills, incentivizing prisoners to improve their qualifications and skills to increase their prospects of finding work on release, and ensuring that Governors and their teams have the knowledge, tools, support and accountabilities that they need to make this work\. PES seeks to transform learning in jails as part of a renewed push to skill up offenders and protect the public\. PES Core Education will include teaching and delivery of a two-layered curriculum for independence and for opportunity which meets the needs of prisoners, as well as high quality, timely screening and assessment delivery and tailored and impactful additional learning needs support\. The Ministry of Justice launched the PES Panel to reform how education is delivered across the adult prison estate in England\. The first call-offs under this framework focused on Core Education Services, including teaching and delivery of a two-layered curriculum for independence \(essential subjects such as English, Maths, digital skills\) and curriculum for opportunity, which meets the needs of prisoners\. The Core Education contracts also include high quality, timely screening and assessment delivery; tailored and impactful additional learning needs support; and \(where applicable\) prison library services\. The contracts are split into 11 regional lots and aim to provide a consistent, high-quality education offer that supports rehabilitation, reduces reoffending, and improves employability and resettlement outcomes for prisoners\. The procurement was conducted under the Open Procedure in accordance with the Light Touch Regime of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/91864ea3-665c-41f1-b2ba-02e1e9a6fd67-856627)