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.
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Find activities, books, films, sound bites and worksheets to support your work with children and young people. ViewOffenders and Families
Find information, books, tools, activities and programmes to support your work with offenders and their partners or family members. ViewTo 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. View79. Information for Prisons and YOIs
There are an estimated 310,000 children affected by parental imprisonment each year. It is important that professionals working in prisons, Young Offender Institutions (YOIs), Secure Children's Homes and Secure Training Centres (STCs) have an awareness of how to help children and parents maintain ties as a means of reducing reoffending and intergenerational offending, and also for the wellbeing of innocent families. NICCO’s briefings...
80. Information for troubled families professionals
There are an estimated 310,000 children affected by parental imprisonment each year. These children and their families are more likely than their peers to suffer outcomes such as poor physical and mental health, poverty, poor education experiences and stigma. Given the focus on education, crime and anti-social behaviour, professionals are likely to be working with many families that are affected by parental offending. Furthermore the focus on parental offending, and...
81. Invisible Walls Wales
Invisible Walls Wales (IWW) is a Big Lottery funded project based in HMP Parc, South Wales, aimed at maintaining and improving relationships between male prisoners and their children and families, improving the quality of life of all participants, reducing re-offending by the prisoners, and reducing the risk of ‘intergenerational’ offending. It adopts a ‘whole family’ approach, providing support to prisoners, partners and children for up to 12 months pre-release and...
82. Isle of Wight Charter for Organisations/Services to Support Children and Families of Offenders
Barnardo's Community Support for Offenders' Families (CSOF) on the Isle of Wight have devloped a Charter for local organisations to sign up to, demonstrating their committment to making a difference for offenders' children. On signing the Charter organisations declare their awareness of the impact of offending on families and agree to five aims for good practice, including identifying a Champion for offenders' children. In response to their commitment, Isle of Wight CSOF...
83. It's No Holiday
This film from Families Outside uses the voices of children and young people, and explores some of their experiences relating to having a close family member in prison. It looks at different stages of imprisonment including arrest, trial and imprisonment, visiting and release - as well as different areas of life that imprisonment can impact on such as friends, help and support and feelings. The film can be used as an awareness raising and training resource for a range of professionals. See...
84. Joint Working Protocol: Safeguarding children and young people whose parents / carers have problems with: mental health, substance misuse, learning disability and emotional or psychological distress
This protocol document, aimed at multiagency professionals, is a collaboration between a number of Local Safeguarding Children Boards. It notes at a few points throughout the 53 pages the impact that having a parent involved in the different parts of the Criminal Justice System can have on children's wellbeing. Section 2.4.3 is a short dedicated section to 'Parents who Offend'. This notes Winchester Prison and Kingston's partnerships with agencies such as the Job Centre...
