Directory of Resources

The NICCO Directory of Resources provides details of the huge number of tools, activities, practice models and guidance that have been developed by agencies to support offenders and their children and families.

Whether you are working directly with children, supporting offenders to maintain parental contact, helping a parent to prepare their child for a prison visit or simply want to develop your own understanding of the criminal justice system, this directory provides you with a range of resources to support and inform your work.

To support working with Children

Find activities, books, films, sound bites and worksheets to support your work with children and young people. View

Offenders and Families

Find information, books, tools, activities and programmes to support your work with offenders and their partners or family members. View

To support Professional's Practice

Find delivery models, case studies, local and national policies and guidlines, practice guides, briefings and resources for professional learning and development. View

19. HMP & YOI Parc Families and Significant Other Strategy 2021-22

HMP & YOI Parc has over the last decade developed a specific strategy and model of family interventions that we believe makes a clear positive impact on prisoners in our care, their children, family and significant others. The Invisible Walls Family Services model is an evidence-based approach that seeks to contribute to three key areas of ongoing concern and which in themselves represent our Terms of Reference for the strategy.

20. HMP & YOI Parc Family and Significant Other Strategy 2022-2023

HMP & YOI Parc has over the last 14 years developed a specific strategy and model of family interventions that we believe makes a clear positive impact on prisoners in our care, their children, family and significant others.

21. HMP Ashfield Family Strategy 2022

This strategy has been developed specifically for our prisoners, their families and significant others to inform them of what we have in place and what our plans are moving forward at HMP Ashfield.

22. HMP Ashfield Family Strategy Report 2021

HMP Ashfield 2021 report on the Family and Significant Other Strategy

23. HMP Buckley Hall Family Strategy 2022

At HMP Buckley Hall we all have a responsibility to help maintain positive relationships. Supporting a person in our care to develop meaningful and constructive relationships with their family or significant others is vitally important, especially considering the distance some families may have to travel to visit their loved ones. At HMP Buckley Hall we want to make visits less daunting, more child friendly and stimulating for all that attend whilst adhering to all security procedures....

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