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. View97. Our Voice: Children and Young People's Charter
Pact have been working with a group of children and young people who have experieneced the imprisonment of a family member - with the aim of finding out if the children and young people would like to see any changes in the Criminal Justice System and how PACT can help their voices to be heard. The result of this was the Our Voice: Children and Young People's Charter. With the support of Pact, the young people are asking adults, other young people and organisations to make your voices...
98. 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...
Click here99. 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...
100. Practice Model: Families Outside facilitating contact between imprisoned fathers and their child's school
Families Outside have developed a project which supports fathers in prison to be more closely involved in their children's education. The project means that dads receive reports and updates directly from the school about their child's school progress and allows Families Outside to help teachers support families. The project has a very clear procedure to ensure that all parties (school, prison, child, parents/carers in the community, father in prison) are involved in and informed...
Click here101. Guidance for working with children with a family member in prison
This 9 page guidance document sits within Bolton's Safeguarding Children Board's archives. It offers background information into the estimated numbers of children affected by offending behaviour in the family as well as examples of signs and indicators. The document also outlines what the impact on the child is likely to be under each of the five every child matters outcomes (health, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution, being safe and achieving economic...
102. Barnardo's i-HOP & Greater Manchester Safeguarding Partnership Guidance for Working with Children who have a Parent (or Significant Family Member) in Prison
This protocol developed by the Greater Manchester Safeguarding Partnership in partnership with Barnardo's i-HOP builds on the Bolton Safeguarding Children Board's guidelines. This guidance has been written to assist all professionals who work with children who have a parent or significant family member in prison and to encourage a strategic approach to meeting the needs of this potentially vulnerable group. Sections include: - Aims of the Guidelines - Background - Impact of...
