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
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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. View115. Prison Service Journal Jan 2019
The Prison Service Journal for January 2019 has a focus on 'Prisons, Prisoners and their Families'
116. PSI 16/2011 Providing Visits and Services to Visits
This Prison Service Instruction (PSI), produced by the Ministry of Justice, provides rules, regulations and guidelines around prison visits. It includes information about the minimum requirements English and Welsh prisons must provide regarding visits, visitor facilities, safeguarding, visitor information etc and also makes suggestions about additional services that prisons may wish to consider providing. The PSI stresses the importance of family ties and visits, both to the prisoner and...
117. Quality of Childhood European Parliament session
This presentation was given by COPE during a Quality of Childhood session at European Parliament on the 10th of January 2017. The downloadable PDF is useful for practitioners, service providers and strategic level workers wanting a some what visual overview of progression in the field of children of prisoners across Europe in the past 10 years. There are also findings from the COPING study included and messages for good practice. You can download the PDF of the session on COPE's...
118. Quality services: Ticking all the boxes
This is a short guide for professionals from APOF around evidence and quality when working with offenders' children and families. It introduces the need for and tensions around evaluating services which work with this group. It suggests different recognised approaches to measuring the impact that services have (such as the four pillars approach) and stresses the importance of measuring against soft targets as well as for key outcomes. There are some examples of measurement tools as well...
119. Rebalancing the scales: Child rights when sentencing parents
This video from Children of Prisoners Europe explains the negative impact of parental imprisonment on children and sets out some of the key UNCRC rights triggered by a parent's trial. The video reinforces the need for sentencing decisions to be made in the best interests of the child and sets out some practical advice on how to protect children when sentencing parents, namely: to consider non-custodial sentences where appropriate; otherwise, to sentence to prisons close to the family...
120. Recognising Quality: An Evaluation Toolkit for Prison Visitors' Centres
Recognising Quality is a guide to running a prison visitor centre to a high standard and achieving good results for visitors. It contains quality standards to assist in systematically looking at the service provided, determining where improvements need to be made, and help with planning and allocating resources.The guide also includes detailed tools, resources and guidelines for assessing against the quality standards, collating evidence about the visitor centre's work, and demonstrating...
