Leadership and Management Training Manual (SIG1, 2021)

The three Special Interest Groups (SIGs) developed training manuals based on European and international minimum standards. The topics of these training manuals are Leadership & Management, Dynamic Security and Managing Difficult Inmates. Within each topic, best practices, a training handbook and a recommendation of the minimum standards have been developed. All reports are available in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. A printable version and guidelines to print the training manuals is available here.

Publication and compilation of these document were made possible with the financial support of the European Union’s Justice Programme (2014- 2020), as part of the project ‘Tackling Gaps in Cross-Border Cooperation for Penitentiary Training Academies’, which was coordinated by the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC).

Leadership and Management Training Handbook This handbook is intended to provide a framework with which prison training academies can design leadership and management training programmes. Given the complexity of prison leadership and management and the broad range of skills required of those tasked with this critical responsibility, effective training is essential. The handbook provides a suggested roadmap for the design and provision of such training and highlights the critical elements required to achieve success. To view the handbook, please choose the language below. English, French, Spanish, Italian, German

Best Practices in Leadership and Management This report is a collection of data that compares and offers best practices provided by different training centres across Europe. The data was collected prior to the Annual Conference of the European Penitentiary Training Network (EPTA) that took place in Switzerland in 2017, and updated in 2019 by the EPTA Special Interest Group 1 members. To view best practices in leadership and management, please choose the language below. English, French, Spanish, Italian, German

Minimum Standards for Leadership and Management This document sets out the minimum standards recommended for the provision of leadership and management training for prison managers. To view the document, please choose the language below. English, French, Spanish, Italian, German