Virgin Trains has outlined how it actively engages with people with convictions as part of its recruitment strategy, at a conference organised by the Scottish Government and Scottish Business in the Community.
The Working2Change summit in Edinburgh heard a video address by Sir Richard Branson about the important role that business have to play by helping rehabilitate people with criminal convictions by ensuring they can find meaningful careers.
Virgin Trains has played a leading role in this work and now holds regular recruitment events in prisons which have proved highly successful in identifying people. Virgin Trains East Coast has committed to roll this programme out over its own eight-year franchise.
Delegates to the summit heard from Kathryn Wildman, Virgin Trains' Lead Recruiter, who delivered two workshops aimed at encouraging businesses to think about recruiting people with criminal convictions. Virgin Trains has worked with St Giles Trust and a number of prisons to identify and recruit people for frontline positions within the business.
