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All research and evidence on NICCO is reviewed using a Quality Assessment Tool (QAT) developed by the University of Huddersfield and Barnardo's.

Research and evidence is assessed in four key areas: Methodological Quality, Child-Centredness, Relevance to Policy and Strategy, and Relevance to Practice with offender's children. This ensures that items on the NICCO website are as useful as possible to academics, practitioners, commissioners and other professionals. For more information about the development of the QAT or to review research in order to list it on NICCO, please see the QAT webpage where you can download the Tool, Guidebook and a short step-by-step 'How To' document. Please contact us to submit quality assessed research on to NICCO.

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43. Developing a workbook to prepare children to visit a family member in Her Majesty's Prison

This research considers the perspectives of children and their parents/carers regarding the contents of a workbook to prepare children for their first visit to a prison to see a family member. It also contains a literature review which highlights the need for appropriate interventions and strategies to be put into place to support children of prisoners. The aims of this small-scale research were to elicit the views of children of prisoners and their parents/carers to inform the design of...

Developing a workbook - Claire Smith

44. Improving outcomes for prisoners and their families, Key lessons from the Integrated Family Support Service

This is the final evaluation of the Integrated Family Support Service (IFSS) which started in 2011. Funded by the Department for Education and National Offender Management Service and run in partnership between Pact in the South of England and Wales and NEPACS in the North East, the service is staffed by a combination of two roles; community based Integrated Family Support Advocates (FSAs) and prison based Integrated Family Support Workers (FSWs). The aim of the IFSS is to ensure early...

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45. Keeping in touch: The Case for Family Support Work in Prison

This report is based on research conducted in Scotland but lessons from it can be learned anywhere. As research shows that families of imprisoned people suffer poor contact and visiting experiences, are negatively impacted upon both socially and financially and that they have a proven positive impact on resettlement and desistance from crime, all Scottish prisons appointed a Family Contact Development Officer (FCDO) in 1992. The report is based on is a mixture of questionnaires, focus...

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46. Caring for the children of imprisoned mothers: exploring the role of fathers

This peer reviewed piece of research referrs to maternal incarercation and the role of fathers in Australia but can be learned from by people with an interest in this area in any country. This report is part of a wider study into the impact of maternal incarceration. Findings from research conducted with fathers around the quality of care they provide are examined. They show that fathers were most likely to care for the children, however the children and their mothers were dissatisfied...

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47. Professional Support for Prisoners' Families and Children

This article from SCIE in Community Care looks at research conducted in 2008 into social work practices, and specifically into the needs of the children families of prisoners. Research into the effects of parental imprisonment concluded that children affected are: three times more likely to have mental health problems than their peers, likely to suffer bullying and stigma and will experience higher levels of social exclusion. This article also considers the statutory responsibilities of...

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48. Parental involvement in the criminal justice system and the development of youth theft, marijuana use, depression and poor academic performance

You will need access to Wiley Online to access the full report. This peer-reviewed article refers to the USA but can be applied anywhere. It explores the notion that intergenerational crime, as most research would report, may not only have causal links to social disadvantage, parenting, genetics and modelling processes but that a parents involvement in the criminal justice system itself may be the cause and negatively impact on a child. The youngest and oldest samples of a longitudinal...

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