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All research and evidence on NICCO is reviewed using a Quality Assessment Tool (QAT) developed by the University of Huddersfield and Barnardo's.

Research and evidence is assessed in four key areas: Methodological Quality, Child-Centredness, Relevance to Policy and Strategy, and Relevance to Practice with offender's children. This ensures that items on the NICCO website are as useful as possible to academics, practitioners, commissioners and other professionals. For more information about the development of the QAT or to review research in order to list it on NICCO, please see the QAT webpage where you can download the Tool, Guidebook and a short step-by-step 'How To' document. Please contact us to submit quality assessed research on to NICCO.

Click on the icons to see a full list of items which have been awarded a standard icon or icon+ (for items which have scored particularly highly) in each key area:

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Relevance to Practice

55. Re-unite Revisited: An Evaluation

The innovative Re-Unite South London project was set up in 2006 and resulted from a body of research evidence that demonstrated the poor outcomes of female offenders, that two thirds of women leave a child behind when they are imprisoned, that 45% of women reoffend within a year of being released and that there are huge financial costs in imprisoning women. The service was set up to support mothers and their children at the critical time of release from prison, and was evaluated in 2010....

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56. COPING: Children of Prisoners, Interventions & Mitigations to Strengthen Mental Health

This peer-reviewed pan-European comparative research was conducted in light of reports which explore intergenerational offending and the adverse impacts on the estimated 800,000 children of offenders throughout the European Union. This coupled with the evident lack of psychological research into, policy around or support for, this potentially vulnerable group of young people, inspired the COPING project. It is of particular interest to policy makers, campaigning organizations and interest...

COPING.pdf

57. Factors linked to reoffending: a one-year follow-up of prisoners who took part in the Resettlement Surveys 2001, 2003 and 2004

This research summary outlines the learnings from the Resettlement Surveys Reoffending Analysis (RSRA) study which was conducted to add to the evidence in relation to resettlement factors and the role they play in reducing reoffending. The entire document cannot be found at the time of writing. Key findings are around family visits being associated with successful employment and accommodation outcomes and the key statistic: receiving family visits is associated with reduced chances of...

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58. Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners

This policy analysis report, published under the previous administration, looks at the factors that can reduce re-offending. Chapter 15 explores how maintaining family relationships can help to prevent re-offending and support resettlement after release - yet there is no official responsibility within prisons for ensuring relationships are maintained, and families are rarely consulted regarding sentence planning. The chapter also discusses support for families, commenting that this is very...

Reducing reoffending by exprisoners.pdf

59. Intermediate outcomes of family and intimate relationship interventions: a rapid evidence assessment

This rapid evidence assessment looks at 29 studies of 26 interventions and grades the research according to the scientific methods scale. Achieved family related and general intermediate outcomes are picked out. Relevant identified outcomes include; increased knowledge about parenting/parenting skills, improved relationship with child, improved communication with child via visits/letters and decreased parenting stress. This assessment highlights that current studies do not allow us to draw...

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60. Not Seen. Not Heard. Not Guilty: The Rights and Status of the Children of Prisoners in Scotland

This research, produced by Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, is about the Scottish penal system and children but organisations or individuals from any country can learn from it. The report argues that children of prisoners are invisible victims of crime and the Scottish penal system. It highlights, through a literature review of research, desk research and field visits, that the voices of children of prisoner's are silenced as a result of the shame and stigma...

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