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 delivery models, case studies, local and national policies and guidlines, practice guides, briefings and resources for professional learning and development. View85. Keeping Mum: YouTube Video
In this powerful 8 minute video actors convey the reflection of women at HMP Askham Grange in York on how their imprisonment has impacted on their children's lives. The video clip was put together by York St John University in collaboration with Barnardo's staff at HMP Askham Grange. This video would be most useful to share with professionals as a way of raising awareness of how maternal imprisonment can affect children as well as mums in prison. Watch Keeping Mum on YouTube...
86. Lucy Baldwin - Works on Maternal Imprisonment
Lucy Baldwin is a Senior lecturer in Criminology based in the Community & Criminal Justice Division, located within the Health and Life Sciences faculty of De Montfort University. Prior to entering the world of Academia full time in 2004 Lucy had worked as both a Social Worker and a Probation Officer across a broad range of social and criminal justice settings. (In both custodial and community based environments). She recently convened the 'Women, Families,...
87. Maintaining family ties: Learning from PPO complaints relating to maintaining family ties with prisoners
This edition of the Prison and Probation Ombudsman's (PPO) Learning lessons bulletin, details complaints made by prisoners to the PPO regarding maintaining family ties and the subsequent investigations, highlighting learning drawn out from these for the Prison Service. The bulletin gives an introduction to the issues surrounding maintaining family ties, discussing for example, the balance that it is necessary for prisons to reach between the effective facilitation of family contact for...
88. Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Justice, the National Ombudsman for Childhood and Adolescence, and Bambinisenzasbarre ONLUS
This Italian policy is a great example to the rest of Europe of how the children of prisoners can be formerly recognised at a national governmental level. The memorandum was agreed upon by the Minister of Justice, the President of Bambinisenzasbarre, and the National Ombudsman for Childhood and Adolescence in March 2014, and sets out measures regarding children of prisoners in Italy. It includes measures which aim to improve the consideration of offenders' children when passing...
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This is an excerpt of a DVD produced by Action for Prisoners' and Offenders' Families which demonstrates how family life can be affected by a woman's imprisonment. It is a short youtube video which shows a scene where the imprisoned woman asks her mother to care for her son whilst she serves her 1 year sentence inside. Watch the clip below:
90. My dad's in prison, my childhood's on hold - Radio 1 Newsbeat
This clip of an interview on BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat features a 17 year old girl discussing the impact of having her stepdad sent to prison when she was 14 years. She shares her experiences of the initial shock she felt, how it affected her mother, having to help out with her young siblings and what it's like for her at school. This resource could be shared with children and families or used for awareness raising with professionals. Watch 'My dad's in prison, my...
