Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Newman - Editor of www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk

In this episode, Dawn talks to Richie Ellison about prisoner rehabilitation, employability in communities where worklessness is commonplace and about the importance of just being nice. 

Richie is director of TKO Boxing and Learning Centre in Newcastle, and opened the centre after a successful career within welfare to work, engaging those who had been 'written off' into training and work. 

You can find out more about the work at TKO by following Richie on LinkedIn, or finding TKO on social media or on their Facebook page (@TKOnewcastle), on Twitter (@TKOnewcastle) and on Instagram (@tko_boxingnewcastle) 

If you want to join CACHE Alumni, the association for professional caregivers, you can find us at www.cachealumni.org.uk.

Membership is free and you'll find loads more examples of best practice, lots of great sector insight and opinion from subject specialists across Care, Education and Early Years. 

Until next time.... Take care.