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. View163. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting social care professionals to support children of offenders
This document contains a poster and two page briefing about children and families affected by parental offending and how NICCO can assist social care professionals to support them. The briefing summarises some of the key outcomes for these families, and highlights the importance of social care teams having an understanding of this issue and the ability to provide support and information for families in this situation. It is likely that social workers may already be working with many...
164. Good Practice Guidance for the Support of Families Affected by Imprisonment
Facilitated by Families Outside, The Criminal Justice Family Support Network is a forum of voluntary organisations working across Scotland who provide support to families affected by imprisonment. Based on research and practice, the Network has produced Good Practice Guidance for the Support of Families Affected by Imprisonment, which aims to ensure professionals in the voluntary and statutory sectors are best informed and engaged to provide support for these families. It...
165. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting professionals who work with young offenders' children and families
This document contains a poster and two page briefing about how professionals can support the children and families of young offenders. Young people with convictions are far more likely than young people without to have children. It is essential, therefore, for professionals to recognise the negative impact parental offending can have on these children e.g. stigma, financial difficulties, mental health issues, and the ways in which their needs can be met. The poster and briefing include...
166. 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...
167. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting Community Rehabilitation Companies and the National Probation Service to support offenders' children
This document contains a poster and two page briefing about children and families affected by parental offending and how NICCO can assist Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and the National Probation Service (NPS) professionals to support them. The briefing summarises some of the key outcomes for these families, and highlights the importance of CRC and NPS professionals considering children and families in their supervision of offenders. CRC and NPS professionals supervise a range...
168. 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...
