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. View7. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting children's rights advocates to support children of offenders
This document contains a poster and three page briefing about children and families affected by parental offending and how NICCO can assist children's rights advocates to support them. The briefing summarises some of the key effects of imprisonment on children and, with reference to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), considers which of their rights are particularly impacted on by a parent's involvement in the criminal justice system. The unique...
8. 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...
9. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting court professionals to support the children and families of offenders
This document contains a poster and two page briefing about children and families affected by parental offending and how NICCO can assist courts professionals to support them. The briefing summarises some of the key outcomes and experiences for these families, and highlights the benefits of professionals working within courts having an awareness of these issues and the ability to provide support or information to the children and families of the defendants attending court. The importance...
10. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting Criminal Justice Commissioners to consider children and families of offenders
This document contains a poster and a two page briefing about children of offenders and how NICCO can assist Criminal Justice System commissioners to consider them. The briefing highlights the benefits of considering children and families of offenders in terms of reducing re-offending and intergenerational offending, introduces some ideas about how commissioners may be able to consider children and families, and includes examples of existing services. Please download the poster and...
11. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting early years professionals to support children of offenders
This document contains a poster and two page briefing about children of offenders and how NICCO can assist early years professionals and settings to support children of offenders. Given the likely high numbers of under-fives affected by parental imprisonment, along with both the importance of early years attachment development and early intervention, it is essential that early years professionals - such as playworkers, nursery and children's centre staff, midwives, health visitors and...
12. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting fostering teams to support children of offenders and the families that care for them
This document contains a poster and two page briefing about children of offenders who go into care and how NICCO can assist fostering teams to support them. The briefing summarises some of the key effects of parental offending and imprisonment on children and considers how they might present to foster carers. It makes suggestions as to how fostering teams can support children of offenders in care, and their carers, and highlights how NICCO can assist in this. The poster and briefing...
