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
Find information, books, tools, activities and programmes to support your work with offenders and their partners or family members. ViewTo support Professional's Practice
Find delivery models, case studies, local and national policies and guidlines, practice guides, briefings and resources for professional learning and development. View1. "What about me?" The impact on children when mothers are involved in the criminal justice system
Children are often devastated when their mum is sent to prison but their interests are rarely considered by a justice system which is blind to their needs, this report by the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) reveals. For most children, their mother is their primary carer. Every year an estimated 17,000 children experience their mum being sent to prison. Last year, 83% of women sentenced to prison had committed a non-violent crime and 62% were serving a sentence of six months or less....
2. 27,000 Voices
Approximately 27,000 children are separated from an imprisoned parent each year in Scotland - about twice as many children each year experience a parent's imprisonment than a parent's divorce. This film features the voices of children with a parent in prison, and demonstrates that they have many different experiences and distinctive needs. The film can be used as an awareness raising and training resource for a range of professionals. See 27,000 voices below:
3. A manifesto for families of prisoners in the north east
This manifesto is the result of a Nepacs Visitors' Voice event where families of prisoners that are currently visiting north east prisons discussed how the government and prison service can change services for prison visitors for the better. The manifesto contains 16 action points for the government that the families felt would improve prison visits for children and families and help to maintain family ties during a sentence. Please download the manifesto below.
4. Barnardo's i-HOP Academic Resource Pack
The Barnardo's i-HOP Academic Resource Pack is a comprehensive set of teaching materials for use as part of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Its aim is to enable course providers to ensure the future children and families workforce understands and can respond to offenders' children, who may be among the most vulnerable of the children that they go on to work with. This easy-to-use resource pack incorporates everything an educator needs to deliver a session on...
5. Barnardo's i-HOP Quality Statements and Toolkit
The Barnardo's i-HOP Quality Statements and Toolkit is a helpful resource for all professionals in universal, targeted, specialist and criminal justice services to assess and develop their practice with children of offenders. Produced by Research in Practice, the Toolkit was informed by research, policy and practice as well as practitioners and children and young people who have had a loved one involved in the Criminal Justice System. The Toolkit is structured by 8 Quality...
6. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting apprenticeship providers to support children of offenders
This document contains a poster and a two page briefing about children of offenders and how NICCO can assist apprenticeship providers to consider them. Given the experiences young people with a parent in prison may face, it is essential that apprenticeship providers understand and are able to respond to their needs. The briefing summarises how young people may be affected by parental imprisonment and highlights how NICCO can assist professionals to respond to these needs. Please...
